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CVE-2016-2809 json

The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary…

published 2016-04-30 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3882

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution.

Patch / fix

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 50.1.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2809 updated cvss 4.3

Mozilla: Privilege escalation through file deletion by Maintenance Service updater (MFSA 2016-40)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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