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Vulnerability record · CVE-2015-0833 · published 25 February 2015

CVE-2015-0833: Opensuse evergreen vulnerability

Opensuse · Evergreen

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.

6.9 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 0.33% · top 76.6%
6.9CVSS 2.0 base score
0.33%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
5Affected product versions listed by NVD
20References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

5 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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

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