CVE-2013-1700: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 on Windows does not properly handle inability to launch the Mozilla Updater executable file, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors involving placement of a Trojan horse executable file at an arbitrary location.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 21.0; version 19.0 only; version 19.0.1 only; version 19.0.2 only; version 20.0 only; version 20.0.1 only

Published 2013-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.