Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 16, 2015· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-4481
CVE-2015-4481
Description
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.
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Affected products
12cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 5 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=39.0.3
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:38.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <40.0 (Firefox) / <38.2 (Firefox ESR)
- cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaThunderbird&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 50.1.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 45.5.1-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
11- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.htmlnvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/nvd
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