cve/2019/CVE-2019-17009.md

CVE-2019-17009

Description

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. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected.. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.3, Firefox ESR < 68.3, and Firefox < 71.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510494
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.