Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,45.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.44% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377732
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2809  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 45.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.

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