CVE-2015-0833
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2015-0833 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mozilla |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2015-02-25 11:59:13 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
LocalAccess Complexity
MediumAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
CompleteIntegrity
CompleteAvailability
CompleteAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System | Microsoft | Windows | All | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.10.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.6.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.7.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.9 | rc | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.9.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.9.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 0.9.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0 | preview_release | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.0.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.4.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5 | beta1 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5 | beta2 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.0.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.5.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 1.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 11.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 12.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 12.0 | beta6 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 13.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 13.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 14.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 14.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 15.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 15.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 16.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 16.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 16.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 17.0.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 18.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 18.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 18.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 19.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 19.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 19.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.13 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.14 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.15 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.16 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.17 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.18 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.19 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.20 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 2.0.0.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 20.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 20.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 21.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 22.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 23.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 23.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 24.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 24.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 24.1.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 25.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 25.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 26.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 27.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 27.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 28.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 29.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 29.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.13 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.14 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.15 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.16 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.17 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.18 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.19 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.13 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.14 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.15 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.16 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.17 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.18 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.19 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.13 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.14 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.15 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.16 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.17 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.18 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.19 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.20 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.21 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.22 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.23 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.24 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.25 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.26 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.27 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.28 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.6.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 30.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 31.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 31.1.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 32.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 33.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 34.0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta1 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta10 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta11 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta12 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta2 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta3 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta4 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta5 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta6 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta7 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta8 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta9 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 5.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 5.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 7.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 7.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 8.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 8.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 9.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 9.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | All | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Thunderbird | 31.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Thunderbird | 31.1.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Thunderbird | 31.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Thunderbird | 31.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Thunderbird | All | All | All | All |
| Operating System | Opensuse | Evergreen | 11.4 | All | All | All |
| Operating System | Opensuse | Opensuse | 13.1 | All | All | All |
| Operating System | Opensuse | Opensuse | 13.2 | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invoking Mozilla updater will load locally stored DLL files — Mozilla | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.mozilla.org | Vendor Advisory |
| Mozilla Firefox Multiple Flaws Let Remote Users Deny Service, Execute Arbitrary Code, Bypass Security Restrictions, and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information and Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securitytracker.com | |
| Gentoo Security | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | security.gentoo.org | |
| Access Denied | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugzilla.mozilla.org | |
| Mozilla Firefox Firefox ESR and Thunderbird DLL Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | |
| openSUSE-SU-2015:0570-1: moderate: Security update for seamonkey | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.opensuse.org | |
| [security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:0567-1: important: update to Firefo | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.opensuse.org | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird Flaws Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information and Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges - SecurityTracker | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securitytracker.com | |
| [security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2015:1266-1: important: Mozilla (Firefox | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.opensuse.org | |
| Oracle Solaris Bulletin - April 2016 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.oracle.com | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.