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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-0833 Detail

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5, and Thunderbird before 31.5 on Windows, when the Maintenance Service is not used, allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the current working directory or (2) a temporary directory, as demonstrated by bcrypt.dll.


Evaluator Description

CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path

Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-12.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Vendor Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72747 CVE, Mozilla Corporation
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791 CVE, Mozilla Corporation
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031792 CVE, Mozilla Corporation
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945192 CVE, Mozilla Corporation
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 CVE, Mozilla Corporation

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-0833
NVD Published Date:
02/25/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Mozilla Corporation