CVE-2013-1715
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.9
Description
Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in the (1) full installer and (2) stub installer in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4206.
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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References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-74.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883165
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18210
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-74.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=883165
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18210
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.