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CVE-2016-5253

Published: Aug 05, 2016 | Modified: Aug 16, 2017
CVSS 3.x
4.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.7 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5253
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 47.0.1 (including)
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *

References

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