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...

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...

Arbitrary file manipulation by local user through Mozilla updater and callback application path parameter — Mozilla

Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek reported that when the Updater is opened directly using the callback application path parameter, a copy of a user specified file is made as a callback file. If the target of this file is made with a locked hardlink, an arbitrary local file can be replaced on...