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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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2013-1700 | 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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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T15:13:31.694Z
Reserved: 2013-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2013-1673
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Status : Modified
Published: 2013-05-16T11:45:30.840
Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040
Link: CVE-2013-1673
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD