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Mozilla Products Updater Service Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
This host is installed with Mozilla firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Insight
Insight
- Mozilla updater allows to load a local DLL file in a privileged context. - The 'Updater.exe' in the Windows Updater Service allows to load an arbitrary local wsock32.dll file, which can then be run with the same system privileges used by the service.
Affected Software
Affected Software
SeaMonkey version 2.9, Thunderbird version 12.0 and Mozilla Firefox version 12.0 on Windows
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 13.0 or later, upgrade to SeaMonkey version to 2.10 or later, upgrade to Thunderbird version to 13.0 or later.