VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-0833

medium
Published 2015-02-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in updater.exe in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5, and Thunderbird before 31.5 on Windows, when the Maintenance Service is not used, allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in (1) the current working directory or (2) a temporary directory, as demonstrated by bcrypt.dll.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"35.0.1"}
mozilla mozillafirefox0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox0.6.1
mozilla mozillafirefox0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox0.7.1
mozilla mozillafirefox0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox0.9.1
mozilla mozillafirefox0.9.2
mozilla mozillafirefox0.9.3
mozilla mozillafirefox0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox0.10.1
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox1.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox1.4.1
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.1
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.2
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.3
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.4
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.5
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.6
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.7
mozilla mozillafirefox1.5.8
mozilla mozillafirefox1.8
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.13
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.14
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.15
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.16
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.17
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.18
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.19
mozilla mozillafirefox2.0.0.20
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.15
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.16
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.17
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.18
mozilla mozillafirefox3.0.19
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.1
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.5
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.7
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.8
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.9
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.10
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.11
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.12
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.15
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.16
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.17
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.18
mozilla mozillafirefox3.5.19
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.2
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.3
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.4
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.6
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.7
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.8
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.9
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.10
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.11
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.12
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.13
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.14
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.15
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.16
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.17
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.18
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.19
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.20
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.21
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.22
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.23
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.24
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.25
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.26
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.27
mozilla mozillafirefox3.6.28
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox7.0
mozilla mozillafirefox7.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox8.0
mozilla mozillafirefox8.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox9.0
mozilla mozillafirefox9.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox10.0.12
mozilla mozillafirefox11.0
mozilla mozillafirefox12.0
mozilla mozillafirefox13.0
mozilla mozillafirefox13.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox14.0
mozilla mozillafirefox14.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox15.0
mozilla mozillafirefox15.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox16.0
mozilla mozillafirefox16.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox16.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.3
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.4
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.6
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.7
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.8
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.9
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.10
mozilla mozillafirefox17.0.11
mozilla mozillafirefox18.0
mozilla mozillafirefox18.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox18.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox19.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox20.0
mozilla mozillafirefox20.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox21.0
mozilla mozillafirefox22.0
mozilla mozillafirefox23.0
mozilla mozillafirefox23.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox24.0
mozilla mozillafirefox24.1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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