MFSA2016-40 Firefox: Privilege escalation through file deletion by Maintenance Service updater (CVE-2016-2809)
6
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
04/26/2016
07/25/2018
04/27/2016
10/30/2017
Description
The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-46_0
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