CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-4505
6.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files by conducting a junction attack and waiting for an update operation by the Mozilla Maintenance Service.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox 38.0
• mozilla firefox 38.0.1
• mozilla firefox 38.0.5
• mozilla firefox 38.1.0
• mozilla firefox 38.1.1
• mozilla firefox 38.2.0
• mozilla firefox 38.2.1
• mozilla firefox (<= 40.0.3)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-100.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177861 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-100.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177861 bugzilla.mozilla.org