Vulnerability CVE-2020-15663: Information

Description

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.

Severity: HIGH (8.8) Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published: Oct. 1, 2020
Modified: July 12, 2022
Error type identifier: CWE-427

Fixed packages

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

    1. Configuration 1

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      End excliding
      80.0

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      Start including
      78.0
      End excliding
      78.2

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      Start including
      78.0
      End excliding
      78.2

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      Start including
      68.0
      End excliding
      68.12

      cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
      Start including
      68.0
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      68.12