CVE-2013-1712 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1712?

CVE-2013-1712 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 7 Aug 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8 on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the update directory or (2) the current working directory.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1712?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2013-1712?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1712 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-1712 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1712 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-vrw2-q2cc-chx3.