CVE-2015-0833
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2015-0846)
- Published
- February 25, 2015
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2015-0846 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / windows
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-12.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72747
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031792
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945192
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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