PT-2017-16513 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+5

Julian Hector · Published 2017-04-19 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5456

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.1 Firefox versions prior to 53

Description The issue allows bypassing file system access protections in the sandbox. This is achieved through the file system request constructor using an IPC message, enabling read and write access to the local file system.

Recommendations For Firefox ESR versions prior to 52.1, update to version 52.1 or later. For Firefox versions prior to 53, update to version 53 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Incorrect Permission

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-732

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1577

ALT-PU-2017-1578

ALT-PU-2018-1854

CESA-2017_1106

CVE-2017-5456

MGASA-2018-0018

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2017:1106

RHSA-2017_1106

SUSE-SU-2017:1669-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2235-1

USN-3260-1

USN-3260-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 1964

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344415 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3260-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0018.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3260-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5435 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5430 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3260-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5468 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5456 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5456 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5441 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5454 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5462 · Vendor Advisory