01 Record

CVE-2015-4481

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

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mozilla

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

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

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 0.79% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 56.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: The NVD has published no score for this record
NVD CVSS vector: No NVD score to derive
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2015-08-16 01:00Z11 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 06:18Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2015-06-10

Assigning CNA

mozilla

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')Class

Data version

5.1

Document digest

fe58ac838df5d1f2b17a258c133b9b5b9b9d481bd04baf7a40462ed2bc475a6d

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

microsoftwindowsNot specified—

mozillafirefoxNot specified—

opensuseopensuseNot specified—

oraclesolarisNot specified—

06 References

bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171518x_refsource_CONFIRM
lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:1454http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:1389http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:1453http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
www.exploit-db.com37925https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37925/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
www.securitytracker.com1033247http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201605-06https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
www.securitytracker.com1033372http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2015:1390http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE