Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,21.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377321
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 May 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 May 2013

CVE-2013-1673  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 21.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0 on Windows does not properly maintain Mozilla Maintenance Service registry entries in certain situations involving upgrades from older Firefox versions, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access to a "trusted path."

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