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CVE-2016-2809

The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary…

Published 10 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
5.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.7%
percentile 77%
Public exploits
0
none known

The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.66% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.05.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD2.05.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

  • securitytracker.com /id/1035692 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org /show_bug.cgi?id=1212939 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE, x_transferred
  • security.gentoo.org /glsa/201701-15 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred
  • mozilla.org /security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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