CVE-2015-4481

N/A
Published: August 16, 2015 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:27 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsFirefoxopenSUSESolaris· also runs on 1 platform

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

microsoft-windows (environment)

Runs on — not affected

The affected product only carries this flaw when running on these platforms. The platforms themselves are not vulnerable.

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362

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