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Mozilla: Privilege escalation with Mozilla Maintenance Service in custom Firefox installation location

Published Sep 27, 2019

Description

The Firefox installer allows Firefox to be installed to a custom user writable location, leaving it unprotected from manipulation by unprivileged users or malware. If the Mozilla Maintenance Service is manipulated to update this unprotected location and the updated maintenance service in the unprotected location has been altered, the altered maintenance service can run with elevated privileges during the update process due to a lack of integrity checks. This allows for privilege escalation if the executable has been replaced locally. <br>*Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69, Firefox ESR < 60.9, and Firefox ESR < 68.1.

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Remediation

Red Hat statement

This vulnerability only affected Firefox on the Windows operating system. Firefox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not affected.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mozilla
Published Sep 27, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved May 3, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Sep 3, 2019
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mozilla
Published Sep 27, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2019-3423