CVE-2017-5454 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349276 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5