vulnerability
Arch Linux: Privilege escalation (CVE-2019-17009)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jan 8, 2020 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 8, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
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.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2019-17009
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-17009
- URL-http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.html
- URL-http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.html
- URL-https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510494
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201912-1
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/
- URL-https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/
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