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CVE-2015-4481

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/16/2015

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

microsoft:windowsmozilla:firefoxopensuse:opensuseoracle:solaris

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-362

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372(security@mozilla.org)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518(security@mozilla.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06(security@mozilla.org)

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/(security@mozilla.org)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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