CVE-2016-5253 (GCVE-0-2016-5253)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-08-05 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:53
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.
References
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