CVE-2016-2809

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2016-04-30

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212939
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15