CVE-2016-2809 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2809?

CVE-2016-2809 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 30 Apr 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2809?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2809?

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-2016-2809 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2809 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-4qq8-cxv5-977h.