CVE-2015-4481

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND
OR cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:38.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Information

Published : 2015-08-16 01:59

Updated : 2023-12-10 11:46


NVD link : CVE-2015-4481

Mitre link : CVE-2015-4481

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2015-4481


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Products Affected

oracle

  • solaris

opensuse

  • opensuse

microsoft

  • windows

mozilla

  • firefox_esr
  • firefox
CWE
CWE-362

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')