CVE-2016-5253

published 2016-08-05

CVE-2016-5253: 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…

Priority P4 19 medium 4.7 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC H PR L UI N S U C N I H A N

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

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	firefox	—	—
debian	firefox-esr	—	—
mozilla	firefox	<= 47.0.1	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 4.7 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd v2.0 4.7 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

vendor_debian 4.7 LOW

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