Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,47.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379053
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-5253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 47.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.

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