cvelistv5 - CVE-2019-11736

CVE-2019-11736

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-09-27 17:20

Modified

2024-08-04 23:03

Severity ?

Summary

The Mozilla Maintenance Service does not guard against files being hardlinked to another file in the updates directory, allowing for the replacement of local files, including the Maintenance Service executable, which is run with privileged access. Additionally, there was a race condition during checks for junctions and symbolic links by the Maintenance Service, allowing for potential local file and directory manipulation to be undetected in some circumstances. This allows for potential privilege escalation by a user with unprivileged local access. <br>*Note: These attacks requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69 and Firefox ESR < 68.1.

References

URL	Tags
security@mozilla.org	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html
security@mozilla.org	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html
security@mozilla.org	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551913	Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552206	Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-25/	Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.org	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-26/	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Mozilla	Firefox
	Mozilla	Firefox ESR

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CVE-2019-11736

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