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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.7
Exploit probability16. percentile0.2%
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedAug 5, 2016
First seenAug 5, 2016

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv ≤ 47.0.1—

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