CVE-2015-4505 (GCVE-0-2015-4505)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-09-24 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:18
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files by conducting a junction attack and waiting for an update operation by the Mozilla Maintenance Service.
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