CVE-2015-0833 Affecting mozilla package, versions [,31.4][31.4,36.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.06% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379258
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Feb 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Feb 2015

CVE-2015-0833  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 36.0 or higher.

Overview

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5, and Thunderbird before 31.5 on Windows, when the Maintenance Service is not used, allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the current working directory or (2) a temporary directory, as demonstrated by bcrypt.dll.

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