CVE-2016-5294

Medium

Description

The Mozilla Updater can be made to choose an arbitrary target working directory for output files resulting from the update process. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.5

Exploit probability—

Product

Mozilla Firefox

PublishedJun 11, 2018

First seenJun 11, 2018

How to fix

Update

mozilla firefox45.5.0, 50.0 or later
mozilla thunderbird45.5.0 or later

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
mozilla firefox	v < 45.5.0, v < 50.0	45.5.0, 50.0
mozilla thunderbird	v < 45.5.0	45.5.0

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