CVE-2013-1673 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Mozilla Updater component of Firefox versions prior to 21.0 on Windows. This flaw stems from improper maintenance of Mozilla Maintenance Service registry entries during upgrades from older Firefox versions, allowing local users with write access to a "trusted path" to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has a local attack vector, medium attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 20.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
19.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
19.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
19.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
20.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.