CVE-2016-5253

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 47.0.1

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

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