Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2013-1726
Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, Thunderbird before 24.0, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 does not ensure exclusive access to a MAR file, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a Trojan horse file after MAR signature verification but before MAR use.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.2 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (24.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 24th percentile — 24.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr — versions 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18821 (signature, vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115907.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116610.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-83.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117526.html (vendor-advisory)