CVE-2013-1673 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1673?

CVE-2013-1673 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 Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0 on Windows does not properly maintain Mozilla Maintenance Service registry entries in certain situations involving upgrades from older Firefox versions, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access to a "trusted path."

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1673?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1673?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1673 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-1673 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1673 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-85p8-hpwj-pgv8.