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CVE-2016-2809

The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.

Published

2016-04-30T17:59:06.083

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	microsoft	windows	*	No
Application	mozilla	firefox	≤ 45.0.2	Yes

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html ([email protected])
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212939 ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212939 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)