CVE-2019-17009 - log back

CVE-2019-17009 edited at 03 Dec 2019 19:45:52
Severity
- Unknown
+ Medium
Remote
- Unknown
+ Local
Type
- Unknown
+ Privilege escalation
Description
+ 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.
References
+ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/#CVE-2019-17009
+ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510494
Notes
CVE-2019-17009 created at 03 Dec 2019 19:34:26