CVE-2015-0833 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0833?

CVE-2015-0833 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 25 Feb 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0833?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Esr, Mozilla Thunderbird, Opensuse Evergreen, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0833?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2015-0833 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0833 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-fpw9-4vjw-4573.