CVE-2016-5295

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.
Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5295
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5295.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5295
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-06-11T21:29:00.640Z
Modified
2026-03-15T13:45:05.256587Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5295.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "50.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]