CVE-2016-5253

medium

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-08-05

Updated: 2017-08-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium