CVE-2020-15663
HIGHMozilla Firefox < 80.0 - Uncontrolled Search Path
Title source: ruleDescription
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.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 80, Thunderbird < 78.2, Thunderbird < 68.12, Firefox ESR < 68.12, and Firefox ESR < 78.2.
References (6)
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0167
EPSS Percentile
81.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Classification
CWE
CWE-427
Status
published
Affected Products (3)
mozilla/firefox
< 80.0
mozilla/firefox_esr
< 68.12
mozilla/thunderbird
< 68.12
Timeline
Published
Oct 01, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026