CVE-2016-2809

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

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 26, 2016

Updated · January 14, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified