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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."

Published May 16, 2013

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."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mozilla
Published May 16, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Feb 13, 2013
Link CVE-2013-1673
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2013-1673
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2013-1673