CVE-2015-4481

low
Published 2015-08-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"39.0.3"}
mozillafirefox38.0
mozillafirefox38.0.1
mozillafirefox38.0.5
mozillafirefox38.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-362

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.