CVE-2016-2809

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Apr 30, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-2809: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix