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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 parameter and a hard link.

Published

2016-08-05T01:59:10.893

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 4.7 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

3.4

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	≤ 47.0.1	Yes

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260 ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 ([email protected])
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html Vendor Advisory (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 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)