vulnerability

Arch Linux: Access restriction bypass (CVE-2017-5454)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox < 53, allowing 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.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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