CVE-2019-17009

HIGH7.8

When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater service

Published Jan 8, 2020

Modified 1 years ago

Details

When running, the updater service wrote status and log files to an unrestricted location; potentially allowing an unprivileged process to locate and exploit a vulnerability in file handling in the updater service. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected.. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.

References

ADVISORY

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html

ADVISORY

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html

WEB

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510494

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17009

WEB

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/

WEB