CVE-2017-5456

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 11, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jan 13, 2017

Description

A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox using the file system request constructor through an IPC message. This allows for read and write access to the local file system. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.1 and Firefox < 53.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Firefox ESRMozilla	before 52.1Affected
FirefoxMozilla	before 53Affected

References

RHSA-2017:1106vendor-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344415
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/
97940vdb-entry
1038320vdb-entry

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