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Vulnerability details: VCID-wcpv-beb3-kbgz
Vulnerability ID VCID-wcpv-beb3-kbgz
Aliases CVE-2013-1700
Summary Security researcher Seb Patane reported an issue with the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows. He discovered that when the Mozilla Updater executable was inaccessible, the Maintenance Service will behave incorrectly and can be made to use an updater at an arbitrary location. This updater will run with the system privileges used by the Maintenance Service, allowing for local privilege escalation. Local file system access is necessary in order for this issue to be exploitable and it cannot be triggered through web content.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
System Score Found at
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
epss 0.00149 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
cvssv2 7.2 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1700
generic_textual high https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-62
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2013-1700
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867056
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17126
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-62.html
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:19.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:20.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2013-1700 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1700
CVE-2013-1700 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1700
mfsa2013-62 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-62
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1700
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.35244
EPSS Score 0.00149
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:17:35.670950+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2013/mfsa2013-62.md 38.0.0