CVE-2016-5295

2018-06-1100:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.6%

JSON

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.