CVE-2020-15663

HIGH

Mozilla Firefox < 80.0 - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule

Description

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.

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