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The Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 on Windows...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 5, 2016
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.7
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2016-5253

GHSA ID

GHSA-rw7w-hjmw-gj5r

Source code

No known source code

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