CVE-2015-4481
low
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
3.3
VIR risk
3.3
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.2 | affected | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/
CWEs
CWE-362
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.