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CVE-2016-5253
The Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 48.0 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files via vectors involving the callback…
Medium4.7EPSS 0.24%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 84% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1036508 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 92260 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .