Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5293

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-06-11 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:53:48
Assigner mozilla
State PUBLISHED

Description

When the Mozilla Updater is run, if the Updaters log file in the working directory points to a hardlink, data can be appended to an arbitrary local file. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.