Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,41.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377746
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Sept 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Sep 2015

CVE-2015-4505  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 41.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files by conducting a junction attack and waiting for an update operation by the Mozilla Maintenance Service.

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