Privilege escalation in Microsoft Windows
CVE-2014-1520
maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.
Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation
EPSS: 0.004 (33.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows
- Mozilla Firefox
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 19, 20
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)