CVE-2013-1700 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Mozilla Maintenance Service within Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 22.0 on Windows. This flaw allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by replacing the Mozilla Updater executable with a malicious one, exploiting the service's improper handling of updater launch failures. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its local attack vector, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 21.0CPE 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:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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