PT-2016-6350 · Microsoft+3 · Windows+5

Holger Fuhrmannek · Published 2016-11-17 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2016-5294

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 45.5 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.5 Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 50

Description The issue allows an attacker with local system access to choose an arbitrary target working directory for output files resulting from the update process. This problem is specific to Windows operating systems.

Recommendations For Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 45.5, update to version 45.5 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.5, update to version 45.5 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 50, update to version 50 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2307

CVE-2016-5294

MGASA-2016-0409

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_3011-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Thunderbird

Suse

Windows

References · 2074

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246972 · Exploit
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/45.5.0/releasenotes · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-15 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5294 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5294 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0409 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-92 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-93 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0409.html · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/45.5.1/releasenotes · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-90 · Vendor Advisory