CVE-2016-5295

EPSS 0.3%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

11 Jun 2018Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

This vulnerability allows an attacker to use the Mozilla Maintenance Service to escalate privilege by having the Maintenance Service invoke the Mozilla Updater to run malicious local files. This vulnerability requires local system access and is a variant of MFSA2013-44. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 50.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298