Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 30, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-2809

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.

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Affected products

Mozilla Corporation/Firefox2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=45.0.2
- (no CPE)range: <46.0
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 50.1.0-1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00038.htmlnvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1035692nvd
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15nvd

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