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
Link | Resource |
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html | Vendor Advisory |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944 | Issue Tracking Permissions Required |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260 | |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 | |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 |
Configurations
Information
Published : 2016-08-04 18:59
Updated : 2017-08-15 18:29
NVD link : CVE-2016-5253
Mitre link : CVE-2016-5253
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-264
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Products Affected
mozilla
- firefox