A privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in Firefox before 71.0. 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.
A privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in Firefox before 71.0. 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.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/#CVE-2019-17009 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510494
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