CVE-2016-2809 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

CWE-2645 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 39.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedApr 30
Latest updateMay 17

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox45.0.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-4qq8-cxv5-977h: The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46↗2022-05-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
Mozilla: Privilege escalation through file deletion by Maintenance Service updater (MFSA 2016-40)↗2016-04-26
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Debian
CVE-2016-2809: firefox - The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Window...↗2016
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2809 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through file deletion by Maintenance Service updater (MFSA 2016-40)↗2016-04-25
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