CVE-2016-5295

Description

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

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3