CVE-2015-4481

Published Aug 16, 2015

Last updated 4 months ago

Overview

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.
Source
security@mozilla.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
3.3
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-362

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations