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    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.

    Published:Aug 16, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Aug 16, 2015
    EPSS Score:0.00251
    CVSS Score:3.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows
    Vendor
    Mozilla
    Product
    Firefox
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Solaris

    Exploits

    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925

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    References

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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High