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 |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260 | |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508 | |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944 | Issue Tracking Permissions Required |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2016-08-05T01:00:00
Updated: 2017-08-15T09:57:01
Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-5253
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-08-05T01:59:10.893
Modified: 2017-08-16T01:29:08.913
Link: CVE-2016-5253
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE