CVE-2016-5253 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.7