CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5253
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files via vectors involving the callback application-path parameter and a hard link.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (<= 47.0.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 security.gentoo.org