{"id":"CVE-2016-5253","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-14T14:16:32.453468Z","published":"2016-08-05T01:59:10.893Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92260"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036508"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-69.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246944"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"47.0.1"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5253.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}