3.3 Low
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
8.5 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.1%
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.
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html
www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/