CVE-2016-5253

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5253
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5253.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5253
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Published
2016-08-05T01:59:10.893Z
Modified
2026-03-14T14:16:32.453468Z
Severity
  • 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5253.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "47.0.1"
            }
        ]
    }
]