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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.928Z
Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-5295
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:00.640
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:54:01.170
Link: CVE-2016-5295
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