CVE-2016-5253

4.7 mediumEPSS 0.2%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

4.7 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2016-08-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox

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

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