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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2020-10-01T18:43:38

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:22:30.566Z

Reserved: 2020-07-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-15663

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-10-01T19:15:12.970

Modified: 2022-07-12T17:42:04.277

Link: CVE-2020-15663

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-15663 - Bugzilla