CVE-2016-5295

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Esta vulnerabilidad permite que un atacante emplee Mozilla Maintenance Service para escalar privilegios haciendo que Maintenance Service invoque a Mozilla Updater para ejecutar archivos locales maliciosos. Esta vulnerabilidad requiere acceso local al sistema y es una variante de MFSA2013-44. Nota: este problema solo afecta a sistemas operativos Windows. La vulnerabilidad afecta a Firefox en versiones anteriores a la 50.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2016-06-03 CVE Reserved
2018-06-11 CVE Published
2023-06-05 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94337	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247239	2018-07-30
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2013-44	2018-07-30
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89	2018-07-30

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Mozilla Search vendor "Mozilla"	Firefox Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox"	< 50.0 Search vendor "Mozilla" for product "Firefox" and version " < 50.0"	-	Affected	in	Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"	Windows Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows"	-	-	Safe