CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-17009
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 71.0)
• mozilla firefox esr (< 68.3)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 68.3)
• opensuse leap 15.1
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510494 Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/ Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510494 Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/ Vendor Advisory