CVE-2015-4481
LOW severity · CVSS 3.3 · CWE-362
3.3CVSS LOW
Summary
Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving a hard link to a log file during an update.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372