CVE-2016-2809

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Holger Fuhrmannek as the original reporter.", "bugzilla": {"description": "Mozilla: Privilege escalation through file deletion by Maintenance Service updater (MFSA 2016-40)", "id": "1330272", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330272"}, "csaw": false, "cvss": {"cvss_base_score": "4.3", "cvss_scoring_vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["The Mozilla Maintenance Service updater in Mozilla Firefox before 46.0 on Windows allows user-assisted remote attackers to delete arbitrary files by leveraging certain local file execution."], "name": "CVE-2016-2809", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "firefox", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "firefox", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "firefox", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}], "public_date": "2016-04-26T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2809\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2809\nhttps://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-40.html"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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