CVE-2015-0833

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-02-25 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5, and Thunderbird before 31.5 on Windows, when the Maintenance Service is not used, allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the current working directory or (2) a temporary directory, as demonstrated by bcrypt.dll.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 35.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+226)
Mozilla Firefox ESR: 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4, 31.5
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 31.4; 31.0, 31.1.2, 31.2, 31.3
openSUSE Evergreen: 11.4
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-12.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72747
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031792
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945192
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html

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