CVE-2015-2720

Severity

44%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

106%

The update implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 on Windows does not ensure that the pathname for updater.exe corresponds to the application directory, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

The update implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 on Windows does not ensure that the pathname for updater.exe corresponds to the application directory, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-05-14 10:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2017-01-03 02:59:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-58.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

74611

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127481

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