Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-5294
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.
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Affected products
7<45.5+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: <45.5
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
<45.5+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <45.5
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 50.1.0-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/94336nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1037298nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/nvdVendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90/nvdVendor Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93/nvdVendor Advisory
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