CVE-2016-5295 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox on Windows operating systems, specifically versions prior to 50. An attacker with local system access could leverage the Mozilla Maintenance Service to invoke the Mozilla Updater and execute malicious local files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, but it requires local access and low privileges. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry, and community discussion and media coverage are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 50.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 50CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.