CVE-2016-5253

First published: Fri Aug 05 2016(Updated: )

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.

Credit: security@mozilla.org

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