CVE-2013-1700 (GCVE-0-2013-1700)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-06-26 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:13
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mozilla CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 38/100 over 683 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2013-06-25 00:00
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