CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2826
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The maintenance service in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows does not prevent MAR extracted-file modification during updater execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox 45.1.0
• mozilla firefox 45.1.1
• mozilla firefox (<= 46.0.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-55.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237219 bugzilla.mozilla.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-55.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237219 bugzilla.mozilla.org