CVE-2016-5295

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 11, 2018
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jun 3, 2016

Description

This vulnerability allows an attacker to use the Mozilla Maintenance Service to escalate privilege by having the Maintenance Service invoke the Mozilla Updater to run malicious local files. This vulnerability requires local system access and is a variant of MFSA2013-44. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 50Affected

References

94337vdb-entry
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/
1037298vdb-entry
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239

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