{"cve":"CVE-2015-4481","nvd":{"published":"2015-08-16T01:59:08.877","modified":"2026-06-17T00:27:21.897","status":"Modified","description":"Race condition in the Mozilla Maintenance Service in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving a hard link to a log file during an update.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-362"],"references":["http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html","http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html","http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-84.html"],"products":["mozilla:firefox","opensuse:opensuse","oracle:solaris"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:36:40.444340523+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2015-4481","score":0.00797,"percentile":0.56505,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}