CVE-2013-1673

Publication date 16 May 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

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."

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	13.04 raring	Not affected
	12.10 quantal	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

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Notes

chrisccoulson

Affects the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows only

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1673