CVE-2013-1672 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1672?

CVE-2013-1672 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 16 May 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.6 on Windows allows local users to bypass integrity verification and gain privileges via vectors involving junctions.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1672?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2013-1672?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1672 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-1672 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1672 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j9qw-8pqm-vfx8.