Closed
Bug 667898
Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
Able to install Aurora without admin rights
Categories
(Firefox :: Installer, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: ankurdatta2003, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110627 Firefox/6.0a2 Build ID: 20110627042004 Steps to reproduce: 1) Downloaded the Aurora exe- firefox-6.0a2.en-US.win32.installer 2) I had a freshly formatted Windows 7 32 bit laptop 3) Did not have Admin rights on my user 4) Started Installation 5) Windows asked me to provide a Admin credential 6) Gave my non admin credential which was not accepted 7) Dismissed the dialog from windows 8) Continued installation of Aurora without admin rights 9) Installation succeded 10) Able to use Aurora and right now filing this bug using it Actual results: Installation succeeded without Admin rights. Expected results: Installation should not have happened without admin rights
Comment 1•13 years ago
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I don't believe this is a bug. It's certainly not a security issue. It's perfectly normal to be able to install software into your user area (c:\users\username\Program Files) without requiring administrator privileges, and I believe that's what our installer does by default if it cannot obtain admin privileges to install into a global location. Robstrong, please correct me if I'm wrong. In any case, there's no need for this bug to be private: there's no exploit here.
Group: core-security
Comment 2•13 years ago
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bsmedberg is correct and this is intentional.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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