Mozilla Firefox up to 20.0.1 Mozilla Maintenance Service access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Mozilla Firefox 19.0/19.0.1/19.0.2/20.0/20.0.1. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Mozilla Maintenance Service. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2013-1673. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox 19.0/19.0.1/19.0.2/20.0/20.0.1 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Mozilla Maintenance Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0 on Windows does not properly maintain Mozilla Maintenance Service registry entries in certain situations involving upgrades from older Firefox versions, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access to a "trusted path."

The weakness was disclosed 05/16/2013 as Bug 854088 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.mozilla.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2013-1673 since 02/13/2013. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 66476 (Firefox < 21.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 121178 (Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (MFSA 2013-41 through MFSA 2013-48)).

Upgrading to version 19.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (84257), Tenable (66476) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-39645†). The entries VDB-8756 and VDB-64668 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.9

VulDB Base Score: 9.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 66476
Nessus Name: Firefox < 21.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Mac OS X)
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OpenVAS ID: 803606
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities -01 May13 (Mac OS X)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 19.0

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: Bug 854088
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2013-1673 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-1673
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-64157

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X-Force: 84257
SecurityFocus: 53803
Vulnerability Center: 39645 - Mozilla Firefox Before 12.0 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1673), Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 01/02/2022 18:30
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (69), 04/30/2017 10:36 (2), 01/02/2022 18:30 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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