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CVE-2016-5295
published 2018-06-11

CVE-2016-5295: This vulnerability allows an attacker to use the Mozilla Maintenance Service to escalate privilege by having the Maintenance Service invoke the Mozilla Updater…

PriorityP434high7.8CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.33%
25.1th percentile
This vulnerability allows an attacker to use the Mozilla Maintenance Service to escalate privilege by having the Maintenance Service invoke the Mozilla Updater to run malicious local files. This vulnerability requires local system access and is a variant of MFSA2013-44. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

Affected

3 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianfirefox
mozillafirefox< 50.050.0
mozillafirefox>= unspecified < 5050

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.04.6MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
vendor_debian7.8LOW
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