CVE-2023-4052

A flaw was found in Mozilla. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory described the issue of the Firefox updater creating 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 creating 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.

Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory.

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