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CVE-2016-5294

The Mozilla Updater can be made to choose an arbitrary target working directory for output files resulting from the update process.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 45.5, 50
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The Mozilla Updater can be made to choose an arbitrary target working directory for output files resulting from the update process. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.5, Firefox ESR < 45.5, and Firefox < 50.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Mozilla Thunderbird

    fixed in 45.5

  • Mozilla Firefox ESR

    fixed in 45.5

  • Mozilla Firefox

    fixed in 50

References 7

bugzilla.mozilla.org

securitytracker.com

security.gentoo.org

securityfocus.com

mozilla.org