{"id":"CVE-2015-0833","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-0833","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:51:06.800Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2015-02-25T11:59:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:21:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@mozilla.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":[],"affected":["opensuse/evergreen","opensuse/opensuse","mozilla/firefox","mozilla/thunderbird","mozilla/firefox esr"],"epss":{"score":0.00328,"percentile":0.25728,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-12.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72747","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031792","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945192","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01","source":"security@mozilla.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00026.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-12.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72747","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031792","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945192","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0833","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}