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MFSA2016-40 Firefox: Privilege escalation through file deletion by Maintenance Service updater (CVE-2016-2809)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

Published

Apr 26, 2016

Added

Apr 27, 2016

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

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

mozilla-firefox-upgrade-46_0

References

CVE-2016-2809
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-2809
EUVD-EUVD-2016-3882
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-3882

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