Privilege Escalation Risk in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows
CVE-2015-0833
What is CVE-2015-0833?
Multiple vulnerabilities are present in the updater.exe component of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird for Windows, specifically when the Maintenance Service is disabled. These vulnerabilities allow local users to potentially gain elevated privileges through the exploitation of untrusted search paths. An attacker could leverage a maliciously crafted DLL file placed in either the current working directory or a temporary directory to execute arbitrary code, resulting in unauthorized access. This risk emphasizes the importance of maintaining secure file handling practices and ensuring that software updates are properly managed to mitigate such exploits.
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