CVE-2013-1726

high

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-18

Updated: 2017-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High