Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,47.0)


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-2378090
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-2826  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 47.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The maintenance service in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows does not prevent MAR extracted-file modification during updater execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

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