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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (23.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 23rd percentile — 23.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
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
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/72747 (vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 (vendor-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1031792 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-12.html (Vendor Advisory)