CVE-2019-17009

2020-01-0821:22:53

mozilla

www.cve.org

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.2%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Thunderbird",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "before 68.3"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Firefox ESR",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "before 68.3"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Firefox",
    "vendor": "Mozilla",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "before 71"
      }
    ]
  }
]