CVE-2020-15663

If Firefox is installed to a user-writable directory, the Mozilla Maintenance Service would execute updater.exe from the install location with system…

published October 1, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
3%
Percentile
85.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

If Firefox is installed to a user-writable directory, the Mozilla Maintenance Service would execute updater.exe from the install location with system privileges. Although the Mozilla Maintenance Service does ensure that updater.exe is signed by Mozilla, the version could have been rolled back to a previous version which would have allowed exploitation of an older bug and arbitrary code execution with System Privileges. *Note: This issue only affected Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80, Thunderbird < 78.2, Thunderbird < 68.12, Firefox ESR < 68.12, and Firefox ESR < 78.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02716 · 85.9th percentile
Published
2020-10-01T18:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 18:43Z
    If Firefox is installed to a user-writable directory, the Mozilla Maintenance Service would execute updater.exe from the install location with system…
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