VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1712

medium
Published 2013-08-07 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8 on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the update directory or (2) the current working directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-71.html

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windowsnot-affected
windows windows-not-affected
windows windowsr2not-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"22.0"}
mozillafirefox17.0
mozillafirefox17.0.1
mozillafirefox17.0.2
mozillafirefox17.0.3
mozillafirefox17.0.4
mozillafirefox17.0.5
mozillafirefox17.0.6
mozillafirefox17.0.7
mozillafirefox19.0
mozillafirefox19.0.1
mozillafirefox19.0.2
mozillafirefox20.0
mozillafirefox20.0.1
mozillafirefox21.0
mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"17.0.7"}
mozillathunderbird17.0
mozillathunderbird17.0.1
mozillathunderbird17.0.2
mozillathunderbird17.0.3
mozillathunderbird17.0.4
mozillathunderbird17.0.5
mozillathunderbird17.0.6
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.1
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.2
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.3
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.4
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.5
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.6
mozillathunderbird_esr17.0.7

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.