CVE-2013-1712: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 22.0; 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: 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.