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CVE-2016-5295

UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-11T21:00:00
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Description

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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

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Affected Products

Mozilla

Firefox

Affected Versions:

unspecified

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

⚠ Unreviewed HIGH

GHSA-2h24-5rmg-2c3m

Advisory Details

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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5295
WEB https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239
WEB https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44
WEB https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89
WEB http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337
WEB http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 14, 2022, Modified: May 14, 2022

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.928Z
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