CVE-2013-1726

medium

Description

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.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115907.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116610.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117526.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-83.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890853

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18821

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2013-09-18

Updated: 2017-09-19

Type: CWE-264

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 1.9

Severity: MEDIUM