CVE-2019-17009: mozilla firefox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2019-17009 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Duplicates 1 · Related 6Timeline
- 08-01-2020PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.33%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
25%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.33% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Mozilla3 products
- firefox< 71 | < 71.0
- firefox_esr< 68.3
- thunderbird< 68.3
Ubuntu2 products
- mozjs38All versions (No fix recorded)
- mozjs52All versions (No fix recorded)
Opensuse1 product
- leapEOL15.1
3 vendors · 6 products
References
10 links- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory