CVE-2015-4481

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.

• CWE-362

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518Issue Tracking
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518Issue Tracking
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/

Published

Aug 16, 2015

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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