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MozillaVPN: Elevation of Privilege via a Logic Vulnerability

Medium
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Mozilla
Submitted None

Team Summary

Official summary from Mozilla

This vulnerability is a bypass for a previously fixed issue #2261577. The exploit uses symbolic links during the installation process on macOS that allows an unprivileged attacker to gain root privileges. The fix was released in Mozilla VPN version 2.24.

Reported by northsea

Report Details

Additional information and metadata

State

Closed

Substate

Resolved

Submitted

Weakness

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')