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Tracker / CVE-2019-17009

CVE-2019-17009

High 7.8

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.

Affected products and versions

mozilla firefox · … → 71.0
mozilla firefox_esr · … → 68.3
mozilla thunderbird · … → 68.3
opensuse leap

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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