CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5295
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-11
- 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])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
This vulnerability allows an attacker to use the Mozilla Maintenance Service to escalate privilege by having the Maintenance Service invoke the Mozilla Updater to run malicious local files. This vulnerability requires local system access and is a variant of MFSA2013-44. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 50.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ Vendor Advisory