Arbitrary Target Directory Selection Vulnerability in Mozilla Updater

CVE-2016-5294 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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