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CVE-2016-2809

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 45.0.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212939
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212939
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

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