CVE-2016-2809 (GCVE-0-2016-2809)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-30 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212939 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfs… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2016-04-26 00:00
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