CVE-2013-1712

Medium

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8 on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the update directory or (2) the current working directory.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.9
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedAug 7, 2013
First seenAug 7, 2013

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv ≤ 22.0, 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5, 17.0.6, 17.0.7, 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 21.0—
mozilla thunderbirdv ≤ 17.0.7, 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5, 17.0.6—
mozilla thunderbird_esr17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5, 17.0.6, 17.0.7—

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