CVE-2016-5293

EPSS 0.3%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado

Lifecycle

11 Jun 2018Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

When the Mozilla Updater is run, if the Updater's 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.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox Mozilla · Firefox ESR

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246945 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298