CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-5293.md

CVE-2016-5293

Description

When the Mozilla Updater is run, if the Updater's log file in the working directory points to a hardlink, data can be appended to an arbitrary local file. This vulnerability requires local system access. Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.5 and Firefox < 50.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246945

Github

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