CVE-2016-2809

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox < 45.0.2 - Access Control

Title source: rule

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)

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212939

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0039

EPSS Percentile 59.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-264

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

mozilla/firefox < 45.0.2

Timeline

Published Apr 30, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026