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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-6204 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.915Z

Reserved: 2016-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5253

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-08-05T01:59:10.893

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5253

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