Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
CVE-2015-0833
Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5, and Thunderbird before 31.5 on Windows, when the Maintenance Service is not used, allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the current working directory or (2) a temporary directory, as demonstrated by bcrypt.dll.
EPSS: 0.003 (25.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
- Mozilla Firefox_esr — versions 31.1, 31.2, 31.3
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 31.0, 31.1.2, 31.2
- Opensuse Evergreen — versions 11.4
- Opensuse — versions 13.1, 13.2
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)