CVE-2013-1715 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1715?

CVE-2013-1715 is a medium-severity path traversal 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 the (1) full installer and (2) stub installer in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4206.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1715?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1715?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1715 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-2013-1715 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1715 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-wrqf-mx92-rrfq.