CVE-2015-4481

Public Exploit

Description

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.

Category

3.3
CVSS
Severity: Low
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.23%
Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory mozilla.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518 issue tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html vendor advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html vendor advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/ exploit
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html third party advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247 vdb entry
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 vendor advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372 vdb entry
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2015-4481?
CVE-2015-4481 has been scored as a low severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2015-4481?
To fix CVE-2015-4481, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2015-4481 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2015-4481 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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