CVE-2019-17009

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17009

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17009.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201912-1

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed71.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.