Security Advisory

CVE-2023-4052

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-08-01 14:59:17
Last updated 2024-10-22 14:39:12
Assigner mozilla
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Firefox updater created a directory writable by non-privileged users. When uninstalling Firefox, any files in that directory would be recursively deleted with the permissions of the uninstalling user account. This could be combined with creation of a junction (a form of symbolic link) to allow arbitrary file deletion controlled by the non-privileged user. *This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 116, Firefox ESR < 115.1, and Thunderbird < 115.1.