CVE-2016-5253

MediumCVSS 4.7/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 4.7/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Aug 5, 2016
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-5253: Medium severity, CVSS 4.7 | Vulnix