CVE-2015-4481

Estado: ModificadaBaja (3.3)—💥 Exploit

Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving a hard link to a log file during an update.

CVSS

Versión: 2.0
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Puntuación base: 3.3

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.80%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 55
Fecha de la puntuación: 7/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

💥 Exploits públicos

Hay código de explotación o plantillas de detección públicos. No es lo mismo que explotación activa confirmada (KEV), pero aumenta el riesgo: parchee con prioridad.

Publicado en Exploit-DB · Mozilla - Maintenance Service Log File Overwrite Privilege Escalation (21/8/2015)

Tecnologías afectadas (3)

Mozilla — Firefox Opensuse — Opensuse Oracle — Solaris

CWE

CWE-362

Referencias

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