CVE-2015-4505

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 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: 2015-09-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files by conducting a junction attack and waiting for an update operation by the Mozilla Maintenance Service.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 40.0.3; 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0, 38.1.1, 38.2.0 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-100.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177861
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-100.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

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