CVE-2013-0797 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2013-0797?

CVE-2013-0797 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 3 Apr 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.17 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL file in an unspecified directory.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-0797?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Thunderbird Esr.

How do I fix CVE-2013-0797?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-0797 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2013-0797 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-0797 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g3wf-mc3p-8357.