CVE-2013-1726 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1726?

CVE-2013-1726 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 18 Sep 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, Thunderbird before 24.0, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 does not ensure exclusive access to a MAR file, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a Trojan horse file after MAR signature verification but before MAR use.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1726?

It affects 4 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2013-1726?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1726 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-1726 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1726 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-mvcf-5p4m-53vh.