MEDIUM
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
Published Feb 25, 2015
6.9
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.33%
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.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
Configuration 2
AND
OR
- ≤ 35.0.1
- 0.1
- 0.2
- 0.3
- 0.4
- 0.5
- 0.6
- 0.6.1
- 0.7
- 0.7.1
- 0.8
- 0.9
- 0.9
- 0.9.1
- 0.9.2
- 0.9.3
- 0.10
- 0.10.1
- 1.0
- 1.0
- 1.0.1
- 1.0.2
- 1.0.3
- 1.0.4
- 1.0.5
- 1.0.6
- 1.0.7
- 1.0.8
- 1.4.1
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5
- 1.5.0.1
- 1.5.0.2
- 1.5.0.3
- 1.5.0.4
- 1.5.0.5
- 1.5.0.6
- 1.5.0.7
- 1.5.0.8
- 1.5.0.9
- 1.5.0.10
- 1.5.0.11
- 1.5.0.12
- 1.5.1
- 1.5.2
- 1.5.3
- 1.5.4
- 1.5.5
- 1.5.6
- 1.5.7
- 1.5.8
- 1.8
- 2.0
- 2.0.0.1
- 2.0.0.2
- 2.0.0.3
- 2.0.0.4
- 2.0.0.5
- 2.0.0.6
- 2.0.0.7
- 2.0.0.8
- 2.0.0.9
- 2.0.0.10
- 2.0.0.11
- 2.0.0.12
- 2.0.0.13
- 2.0.0.14
- 2.0.0.15
- 2.0.0.16
- 2.0.0.17
- 2.0.0.18
- 2.0.0.19
- 2.0.0.20
- 3.0
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.3
- 3.0.4
- 3.0.5
- 3.0.6
- 3.0.7
- 3.0.8
- 3.0.9
- 3.0.10
- 3.0.11
- 3.0.12
- 3.0.13
- 3.0.14
- 3.0.15
- 3.0.16
- 3.0.17
- 3.0.18
- 3.0.19
- 3.5
- 3.5.1
- 3.5.2
- 3.5.3
- 3.5.4
- 3.5.5
- 3.5.6
- 3.5.7
- 3.5.8
- 3.5.9
- 3.5.10
- 3.5.11
- 3.5.12
- 3.5.13
- 3.5.14
- 3.5.15
- 3.5.16
- 3.5.17
- 3.5.18
- 3.5.19
- 3.6
- 3.6.2
- 3.6.3
- 3.6.4
- 3.6.6
- 3.6.7
- 3.6.8
- 3.6.9
- 3.6.10
- 3.6.11
- 3.6.12
- 3.6.13
- 3.6.14
- 3.6.15
- 3.6.16
- 3.6.17
- 3.6.18
- 3.6.19
- 3.6.20
- 3.6.21
- 3.6.22
- 3.6.23
- 3.6.24
- 3.6.25
- 3.6.26
- 3.6.27
- 3.6.28
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0.1
- 5.0
- 5.0.1
- 6.0
- 6.0.1
- 6.0.2
- 7.0
- 7.0.1
- 8.0
- 8.0.1
- 9.0
- 9.0.1
- 10.0
- 10.0.1
- 10.0.2
- 10.0.3
- 10.0.4
- 10.0.5
- 10.0.6
- 10.0.7
- 10.0.8
- 10.0.9
- 10.0.10
- 10.0.11
- 10.0.12
- 11.0
- 12.0
- 12.0
- 13.0
- 13.0.1
- 14.0
- 14.0.1
- 15.0
- 15.0.1
- 16.0
- 16.0.1
- 16.0.2
- 17.0
- 17.0.1
- 17.0.2
- 17.0.3
- 17.0.4
- 17.0.5
- 17.0.6
- 17.0.7
- 17.0.8
- 17.0.9
- 17.0.10
- 17.0.11
- 18.0
- 18.0.1
- 18.0.2
- 19.0
- 19.0.1
- 19.0.2
- 20.0
- 20.0.1
- 21.0
- 22.0
- 23.0
- 23.0.1
- 24.0
- 24.1
- 24.1.1
- 25.0
- 25.0.1
- 26.0
- 27.0
- 27.0.1
- 28.0
- 29.0
- 29.0.1
- 30.0
- 31.0
- 31.1.0
- 32.0
- 33.0
- 34.0.5
Configuration 3
AND
OR
- ≤ 31.4
- 31.0
- 31.1.2
- 31.2
- 31.3
Configuration 4
AND
OR
- 31.0
- 31.1.1
- 31.1
- 31.2
- 31.3
- 31.4
- 31.5
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
6.9 MEDIUM NVD
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
0.33% 0.00328
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.00328
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.33% (0.00328) | 23.55th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.33% (0.00328) | 24.37th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.05% (0.00052) | 13.21th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.06% (0.00064) | 29.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00043) | 9.51th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00043) | 7.50th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 68.34th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 22, 2023 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 68.05th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 65.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.28% (0.01282) | 41.72th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (10)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-12.html x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72747 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031792 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945192 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-12.html | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72747 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031792 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945192 | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mozilla
Published Feb 25, 2015
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jan 7, 2015
Link CVE-2015-0833
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a