CVE-2017-5454

Description

A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox to use the file picker to access different files than those selected in the file picker through the use of relative paths. This allows for read only access to the local file system. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349276

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3