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MFSA2017-10 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 53 (CVE-2017-5454)

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MFSA2017-10 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 53 (CVE-2017-5454)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/11/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/12/2018
Modified
08/13/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-53_0

References

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