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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Jun 11, 2018 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade firefox | Apr 21, 2017 | Apr 20, 2017 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade linux-firefoxUpgrade libxulUpgrade linux-seamonkeyUpgrade seamonkeyUpgrade firefox-esrUpgrade linux-thunderbirdUpgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox | Apr 20, 2017 | Apr 19, 2017 |
| Mfsa2017 10 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 53.0 | Jul 12, 2018 | Jun 11, 2018 |
| Mfsa2017 12 | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox ESR version 52.1 | Apr 20, 2017 | Apr 19, 2017 |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | — | Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 52.1 | May 2, 2017 | Apr 30, 2017 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade entire/ to version 11.4-11.4.0.0.1.15.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Oct 19, 2018 | Jun 11, 2018 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox | Apr 20, 2017 | Apr 19, 2017 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution existsUpgrade firefoxUpgrade firefox-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade thunderbird | Apr 20, 2017 | Apr 20, 2017 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-commonUpgrade mozillafirefox-develUpgrade mozillafirefoxUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-develUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-debugsourceUpgrade mozillathunderbird-translations-otherUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-buildsymbolsUpgrade MozillaFirefox-translationsUpgrade MozillaThunderbird-debuginfoUpgrade mozillafirefox-branding-sleUpgrade mozillathunderbird | May 6, 2017 | Apr 20, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade thunderbirdUpgrade firefox | Apr 21, 2017 | Apr 20, 2017 |
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