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.
Race Condition
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
3.3 UNKNOWN
LOCAL
MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
mozillaCNA
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CVEADP
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 38%
VendorProductVersion
mozillafirefox
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≤ 39.0.3
mozillafirefox
38.0
mozillafirefox
38.0.1
mozillafirefox
38.0.5
mozillafirefox
38.1.0
opensuseopensuse
13.1
opensuseopensuse
13.2
oraclesolaris
11.3
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= Vulnerable software versions
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Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
firefox
vivid
not-affected
trusty
dne
precise
not-affected