CVE-2015-2720 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2720?

CVE-2015-2720 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 14 May 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The update implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 on Windows does not ensure that the pathname for updater.exe corresponds to the application directory, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2720?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2720?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-2720 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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

Is CVE-2015-2720 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2720 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mmqm-9qw8-9hc9.