6.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.2%
The Mozilla Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 21.0 on Windows does not
properly maintain Mozilla Maintenance Service registry entries in certain
situations involving upgrades from older Firefox versions, which allows
local users to gain privileges by leveraging write access to a “trusted
path.”
Author | Note |
---|---|
chrisccoulson | Affects the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows only |