CVE-2016-5253

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CVSS 3.0

4.7 medium

EPSS

<1%p16

Published

Aug 5, 2016 (Aug 5, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: mozilla
Products: firefox
Weakness: CWE-264
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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