CVE-2016-5294

Description

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.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3