CVE-2016-5295 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.928Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5295

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:00.640

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:54:01.170

Link: CVE-2016-5295

Redhat

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