CVE-2015-4481

LowCVSS 3.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.3/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Aug 16, 2015
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2015-4481: Low severity, CVSS 3.3 | Vulnix