Bug 1330272 (CVE-2016-2809) - CVE-2016-2809 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through file deletion by Maintenance Service updater (MFSA 2016-40)
Summary: CVE-2016-2809 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through file deletion by Maintena...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-2809
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-04-25 18:47 UTC by Siddharth Sharma
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-09 04:49:02 UTC
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:47:30 UTC 
Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek reported an issue where the Mozilla Maintenance Service updater on Windows can delete arbitrary files because of its privileged system access. This file deletion can then potentially be used for further privilege escalation. This flaw requires users to execute a locally saved file in order for it to be triggered.

This issue does not affect non-Windows operating systems.

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https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html
Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:47:38 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Holger Fuhrmannek
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