Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,22.0)


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-2379155
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Jun 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2013

CVE-2013-1700  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 22.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.

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