MFSA2015-100 Firefox: Arbitrary file manipulation by local user through Mozilla updater (CVE-2015-4505)
7
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
09/22/2015
07/25/2018
09/23/2015
04/05/2017
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-38_3
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-41_0
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