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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.8
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.08

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Update for Mozilla Firefox (50.0)Windows
Update for Mozilla Firefox x64 (50.0)Windows
Update for Mozilla Firefox (50.0.1)Windows
Update for Mozilla Firefox x64 (50.0.1)Windows
Update for Mozilla Firefox (50.0.2)Windows
Update for Mozilla Firefox x64 (50.0.2)Windows
Update for Mozilla Firefox (50.1.0)Windows
Update for Mozilla Firefox x64 (50.1.0)Windows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-344482Mozilla Firefox (134.0.1)
PATCH-304314Update for Mozilla Firefox x64 (50.0)
PATCH-344482Mozilla Firefox (134.0.1)
PATCH-304365Update for Mozilla Firefox x64 (50.0.1)
PATCH-344482Mozilla Firefox (134.0.1)
PATCH-304376Update for Mozilla Firefox x64 (50.0.2)
PATCH-344482Mozilla Firefox (134.0.1)
PATCH-304411Update for Mozilla Firefox x64 (50.1.0)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234