Excessive privileges In firefox

Description

A flaw was found in Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation's Security Advisory describes the following issue: Mozilla Firefox's update mechanism allowed a medium-integrity user process to interfere with the SYSTEM-level updater by manipulating the file-locking behavior. By injecting code into the user-privileged process, an attacker could bypass intended access controls, allowing SYSTEM-level file operations on paths controlled by a non-privileged user and enabling privilege escalation.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
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Affected version
Patched versions

1-10 of 19

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