Downgrade attack on the Mozilla Maintenance Service could have resulted in escalation of privilege - CVE-2020-15663ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:65247 | Date: (C)2020-08-26 (M)2024-03-27 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
Mozilla Firefox 80, Mozilla Firefox ESR 68.12, Mozilla Firefox ESR 78.2, Mozilla Thunderbird 68.12 and Mozilla Thunderbird 78.2 : If Firefox is installed to a user-writable directory, the Mozilla Maintenance Service would execute updater.exe from the install location with administrative 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.
Platform: |
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
Microsoft Windows 11 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 |
Microsoft Windows 8 |
Microsoft Windows XP |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
Microsoft Windows Vista |
Microsoft Windows 7 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Microsoft Windows 10 |
Product: |
Mozilla Firefox |
Mozilla Firefox ESR |
Mozilla Thunderbird |