CVE-2016-5253

MEDIUM

Mozilla Firefox < 47.0.1 - Access Control

Title source: rule

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.

References (5)

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508

[Issue Tracking, Permissions Required] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 18.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-264

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

mozilla/firefox < 47.0.1

Timeline

Published Aug 05, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026