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CVE-2016-5253

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.

  • Published: Aug 5, 2016
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2016-5253
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.7
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

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