The Mozilla Updater can be made to choose an arbitrary target working directory for output files resulting from the update process. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.5
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefoxUpgrade seamonkeyUpgrade libxulUpgrade linux-thunderbirdUpgrade linux-firefoxUpgrade linux-seamonkeyUpgrade firefox-esr | Nov 16, 2016 | Nov 16, 2016 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird.Upgrade mail-client/thunderbird-bin.Upgrade www-client/firefox-bin.Upgrade www-client/firefox. | Oct 30, 2017 | Jan 3, 2017 |
| Mfsa2016 89 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 50.0Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox | Jul 12, 2018 | Jun 11, 2018 |
| Mfsa2016 90 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 45.5Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla Firefox | Nov 16, 2016 | Nov 15, 2016 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla ThunderbirdUpgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 45.5 | Dec 1, 2016 | Nov 18, 2016 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade mail/thunderbird to version 45.5.1-0.175.3.16.0.2.0 on Solaris 11.3Upgrade mail/thunderbird/plugin/thunderbird-lightning to version 45.5.1-0.175.3.16.0.2.0 on Solaris 11.3 | May 29, 2017 | May 29, 2017 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade MozillaFirefox-translations-commonUpgrade MozillaFirefox-translations-otherUpgrade MozillaFirefoxUpgrade MozillaFirefox-devel | Dec 5, 2016 | Nov 15, 2016 |
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