CVE-2015-4481

CVSS V2 Low 3.3 CVSS V3 None
Description
Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving a hard link to a log file during an update.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2015-4481
  • Assigner
  • security@mozilla.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2015-08-16T01:59:08
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-10-30T16:27:37
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-362 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/362.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 39.0.3
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
AND
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
AND
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 3.3
  • Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 4.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518 Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4481
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4481
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:55:02 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 05:55:47 2015-08-16T01:59Z 2015-08-16T01:59:08 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 05:55:47 2018-10-30T16:27:37 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 05:55:47 Modified Vulnerability Status updated