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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2015-08-16T01:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2015-4481

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2018-10-30T16:27:37.467

Link: CVE-2015-4481

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