VDB-142394 · CVE-2019-11736 · MFSA 2019-25

Mozilla Firefox up to 68.x Maintenance Service race condition

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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 68.x (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Maintenance Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Mozilla Maintenance Service does not guard against files being hardlinked to another file in the updates directory, allowing for the replacement of local files, including the Maintenance Service executable, which is run with privileged access. Additionally, there was a race condition during checks for junctions and symbolic links by the Maintenance Service, allowing for potential local file and directory manipulation to be undetected in some circumstances. This allows for potential privilege escalation by a user with unprivileged local access. <br>*Note: These attacks requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69 and Firefox ESR < 68.1.

The weakness was shared 09/27/2019 as MFSA 2019-25 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is available at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-11736 since 05/03/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 69.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The entries 142392, 142393, 142395 and 142396 are related to this item.

Productinfo

Type

Web Browser

Vendor

Mozilla

Name

Firefox

Version

68.x

License

open-source

CPE 2.3info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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NVD Base Score: 7.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 69.0

Timelineinfo

05/03/2019 🔍
09/27/2019 +147 days 🔍
09/27/2019 +0 days 🔍
09/28/2019 +1 days 🔍
09/11/2020 +349 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2019-25
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2019-11736 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/28/2019 07:35
Updated: 09/11/2020 09:50
Changes: 09/28/2019 07:35 (62), 09/11/2020 09:50 (1)
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