Firefox ESR and 2 others: If Firefox is installed to a user-writable directory, the Mozilla Maintenance Service would execute updater.exe…
CVE-2020-15663 is fixed in 2 products on 1 platform, first by Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 78.2.1, released August 28, 2020. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.
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.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows apps | |||
| Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) | 91.0 | Mozilla Firefox ESR (en-US) 91.0 | Aug 4, 2021 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) | 78.2.1 | Mozilla Thunderbird (en-US) 78.2.1 | Aug 28, 2020 |
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