CVE-2016-2826
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
Description
The maintenance service in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows does not prevent MAR extracted-file modification during updater execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2826.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-55.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91075
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036057
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237219
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2826
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.