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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239 | Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ | Vendor Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Updated: 2018-06-12T09:57:01
Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-5295
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:00.640
Modified: 2018-07-30T12:46:14.083
Link: CVE-2016-5295
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE