{"id":"CVE-2016-5294","details":"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 \u003c 45.5, Firefox ESR \u003c 45.5, and Firefox \u003c 50.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:09:25.131836Z","published":"2018-06-11T21:29:00.593Z","related":["MGASA-2016-0409","openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246972"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"45.5.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"50.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"45.5.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5294.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}