VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2015-4481
CVSS score3.3 LOW
EPSS probability0.80%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2015-08-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Primary references
- security@mozilla.org — Third Party Advisory
- security@mozilla.org — Third Party Advisory
- security@mozilla.org
- security@mozilla.org
- security@mozilla.org — Vendor Advisory
- security@mozilla.org — Third Party Advisory
- security@mozilla.org
- security@mozilla.org
- security@mozilla.org — Issue Tracking
- security@mozilla.org
- security@mozilla.org
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory