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01 Record

CVE-2016-2809

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.

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mozilla
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
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02 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.

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
1.65% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 76.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

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
2016-04-30 17:00Z10 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-05 23:32Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2016-03-01
Assigning CNA
mozilla
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Not rated by the issuing CNA
CNA CVSS vector
Not published by the issuing CNA
Weaknesses
Data version
5.1
Document digest
da127a55bcbc30f1e66fdbf4f0678671630e462e4aeddb3bf1947939f557bf6e

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
microsoftwindowsNot specified—
mozillafirefoxNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—

06 References