VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-0797

medium
Published 2013-04-03 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.17 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL file in an unspecified directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"19.0.2"}
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird17.0.4
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.3
mozilla mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.17"}
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.4.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.6.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.7.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.7.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.9.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.10.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.12.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.13.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.13.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.15
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.15.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.15.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.16
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.16.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.16.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.17

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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