CVE-2019-11753

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Si el Servicio de Mantenimiento de Mozilla es manipulado para actualizar esta ubicaci\u00f3n desprotegida y el servicio de mantenimiento actualizado en la ubicaci\u00f3n desprotegida ha sido modificado, el servicio de mantenimiento alterado puede ejecutarse con privilegios elevados durante el proceso de actualizaci\u00f3n debido a la falta de comprobaciones de integridad. Esto permite la escalada de privilegios si el ejecutable ha sido sustituido localmente. <br>*Nota: Este ataque requiere acceso al sistema local y solo afecta a Windows. Otros sistemas operativos no est\u00e1n afectados. *. 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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Holger Fuhrmannek as the original reporter.", "bugzilla": {"description": "Mozilla: Privilege escalation with Mozilla Maintenance Service in custom Firefox installation location", "id": "1748659", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1748659"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-282", "details": ["The Firefox installer allows Firefox to be installed to a custom user writable location, leaving it unprotected from manipulation by unprivileged users or malware. If the Mozilla Maintenance Service is manipulated to update this unprotected location and the updated maintenance service in the unprotected location has been altered, the altered maintenance service can run with elevated privileges during the update process due to a lack of integrity checks. This allows for privilege escalation if the executable has been replaced locally. <br>*Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 69, Firefox ESR < 60.9, and Firefox ESR < 68.1."], "name": "CVE-2019-11753", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "firefox", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "firefox", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "firefox", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "firefox", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}], "public_date": "2019-09-03T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11753\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11753\nhttps://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-27/#CVE-2019-11753"], "statement": "This vulnerability only affected Firefox on the Windows operating system. Firefox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not affected.", "threat_severity": "Important"}

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