CVE-2013-1726: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, Thunderbird before 24.0, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.9, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 does not ensure exclusive access to a MAR file, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating a Trojan horse file after MAR signature verification but before MAR use.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 23.0.1; version 19.0 only; version 19.0.1 only; version 19.0.2 only; version 20.0 only; version 20.0.1 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.20; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 17.0.9; 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 2013-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.