CVE-2015-2720 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before version 38.0 on Windows. The update mechanism failed to verify the updater.exe pathname, potentially allowing a local attacker to substitute a malicious file and gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 4.4, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity but could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 37.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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