CVE-2017-5454

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published6/11/2018

Last Modified11/25/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mozilla:firefoxmozilla:thunderbirdredhat:enterprise_linuxredhat:enterprise_linux_desktopredhat:enterprise_linux_serverredhat:enterprise_linux_server_ausredhat:enterprise_linux_server_eusredhat:enterprise_linux_workstation

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320(security@mozilla.org)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106(security@mozilla.org)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201(security@mozilla.org)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349276(security@mozilla.org)

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

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349276(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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