CVE-2016-2809 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00446.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Microsoft	Windows
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2809
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2809
https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2016-04-30T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:32:21.202Z

Reserved: 2016-03-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2809

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-30T17:59:06.083

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-2809

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-04-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-2809 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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