Description
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.
Published: 2015-08-16
Score: 3.3 Low
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-4501 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.
History

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mozilla firefox Esr

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Microsoft Windows
Mozilla Firefox
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Oracle Solaris
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:18:11.089Z

Reserved: 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-4481

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-08-16T01:59:08.877

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-4481

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