CVE-2015-4481

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

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 products

Mozilla Firefox: through 39.0.3; 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html

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