CVE-2013-1707: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow 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 allows local users to gain privileges via a long pathname on the command line to the Mozilla Maintenance Service.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 22.0; version 19.0 only; version 19.0.1 only; version 19.0.2 only; version 20.0 only; version 20.0.1 only; …
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 17.0.7; version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; …
  • Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; version 17.0.5 only; …

Published 2013-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.