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CVE-2016-2826

The maintenance service in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows does not prevent MAR extracted-file modification during upda…

Impact

The maintenance service in Mozilla Firefox before 47.0 and Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.2 on Windows does not prevent MAR extracted-file modification during updater execution, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MozillaFirefox
through 46.0.1
Versions 45.1.0, 45.1.1

Weakness classification

References