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CVE-2013-1715

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.9)—

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in the (1) full installer and (2) stub installer in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the default downloads directory. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4206.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Mozilla — Firefox

CWEs

References

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