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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:49.006Z

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

Link: CVE-2016-5294

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:00.593

Modified: 2018-07-30T12:45:03.377

Link: CVE-2016-5294

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