High severity · published Oct 1, 2020
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 privileges
8.8
CVSS
2.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.7% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Firefox · Mozilla
before 80.0; 78.0 before 78.2 · source: NVD
FE
Firefox Esr · Mozilla
68.0 before 68.12 · source: NVD
TH
Thunderbird · Mozilla
68.0 before 68.12; 78.0 before 78.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15663
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15663
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1643199
Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-36/
Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-37/
Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-38/
Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-40/
Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2020-41/
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