Race Condition Affecting mozilla package, versions [,40.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379154
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Aug 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-4481  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 40.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. 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.

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