CVE-2015-2720

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2015-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The update implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 on Windows does not ensure that the pathname for updater.exe corresponds to the application directory, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 37.0.2

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-58.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127481
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-58.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1127481

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