CVE-2016-5294 Information

Description

The Mozilla Updater can be made to choose an arbitrary target working directory for output files resulting from the update process. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 45.5 Firefox ESR 45.5 and Firefox 50.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246972 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.5