CVE-2016-5253

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/5/2016

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mozilla:firefox

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508(security@mozilla.org)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944(security@mozilla.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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