PT-2018-8249 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Haik Aftandilian · Published 2017-03-20 · Updated 2018-08-09 · CVE-2017-5425

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Firefox versions prior to 52 Thunderbird versions prior to 52

Description: The Gecko Media Plugin sandbox has an issue that allows access to local files matching specific regular expressions. On OS X, this could expose personal or temporary data in subdirectories of "/private/var". The issue has been updated to restrict access to "/private/var" and its subdirectories. This issue only affects OS X, with other operating systems not being affected.

Recommendations: For Firefox versions prior to 52, update to version 52 or later to resolve the issue. For Thunderbird versions prior to 52, update to version 52 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1322

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2017-5425

MGASA-2018-0018

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Thunderbird

References · 17

• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-28 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0018.html · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322716 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-25 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0018 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-09 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5425 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22283 · Note