Bug 1872530 (CVE-2020-15663) - CVE-2020-15663 Mozilla: Downgrade attack on the Mozilla Maintenance Service could have resulted in escalation of privilege
Summary: CVE-2020-15663 Mozilla: Downgrade attack on the Mozilla Maintenance Service c...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2020-15663
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1870411
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-08-26 02:43 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-10-05 06:42 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: firefox 68.12, thunderbird 78.2
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Last Closed: 2020-08-26 07:17:29 UTC
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Description Doran Moppert 2020-08-26 02:43:23 UTC 
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.*



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-37/#CVE-2020-15663
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2020-08-26 02:43:28 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Xiaoyin Liu
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-08-26 07:17:29 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-15663
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