CVE-2016-5295

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    CVE-2016-5295

    Published: 11 Jun 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239

    Affected packages

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    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