CVE-2015-4481
Published Aug 16, 2015
Last updated 24 days 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
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
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
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