Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2015-4481. PoCs published by Google Security Research.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit leverages a race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service to overwrite arbitrary files via hardlink manipulation, leading to privilege escalation. The PoC demonstrates file corruption or privilege escalation by overwriting a target file with log data.
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.
Exploits (1)
The exploit leverages a race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service to overwrite arbitrary files via hardlink manipulation, leading to privilege escalation. The PoC demonstrates file corruption or privilege escalation by overwriting a target file with log data.