CVE-2016-2809

MEDIUM

Firefox < 45.0.2 - Arbitrary File Deletion via Maintenance Service Updater

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212939
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0045
EPSS Percentile 63.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox < 45.0.2
Published Apr 30, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026