CVE-2013-1715

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 the (1) full installer and (2) stub installer in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4206.

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/mfsa2013-74.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"22.0"}
mozillafirefox19.0
mozillafirefox19.0.1
mozillafirefox19.0.2
mozillafirefox20.0
mozillafirefox20.0.1
mozillafirefox21.0

References

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