CVE-2016-5295
Published: 11 June 2018
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| sbeattie | windows only |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Not vulnerable
(windows only)
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [windows only])
|
|
| upstream |
Released
(50)
|
|
| xenial |
Not vulnerable
(windows only)
|
|
| yakkety |
Not vulnerable
(windows only)
|
|
|
thunderbird Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Not vulnerable
(windows only)
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [windows only])
|
|
| upstream |
Not vulnerable
(windows only)
|
|
| xenial |
Not vulnerable
(windows only)
|
|
| yakkety |
Not vulnerable
(windows only)
|
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 7.8 |
| Attack vector | Local |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |