CVE-2019-17009
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 76% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00001.htmlhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510494https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-36/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-37/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-38/