Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
CVE-2015-4481
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.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (54.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 55th percentile — 54.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.3
- openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/ (exploit)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247 (vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372 (vdb-entry)