MFSA2013-62 Firefox: Inaccessible updater can lead to local privilege escalation (CVE-2013-1700)
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(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
06/25/2013
07/25/2018
06/26/2013
04/05/2017
Description
The Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 on Windows does not properly handle inability to launch the Mozilla Updater executable file, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving placement of a Trojan horse executable file at an arbitrary location.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-22_0
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