CVE-2017-5454: Infoleak
First published: Wed Apr 19 2017(Updated: )
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.
Credit: security@mozilla.org security@mozilla.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Thunderbird | <52.1 | 52.1 |
| Mozilla Firefox ESR | <52.1 | 52.1 |
| Mozilla Firefox | <53 | 53 |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =7.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =7.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server | =7.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus | =7.3 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus | =7.4 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus | =7.3 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus | =7.4 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus | =7.5 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =7.0 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | <53.0 | |
| Mozilla Firefox ESR | <52.1.0 | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | <52.1.0 | |
| debian/firefox | 134.0.1-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349276
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2017-5454
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5454
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1443338
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/#CVE-2017-5461
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5454
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5454
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5454
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5454
Peer vulnerabilities
(Found alongside the following vulnerabilities)
- CVE-2017-5433
- CVE-2017-5435
- CVE-2017-5436
- CVE-2017-5461
- CVE-2017-5459
- CVE-2017-5466
- CVE-2017-5434
- CVE-2017-5432
- CVE-2017-5460
- CVE-2017-5438
- CVE-2017-5439
- CVE-2017-5440
- CVE-2017-5441
- CVE-2017-5442
- CVE-2017-5464
- CVE-2017-5443
- CVE-2017-5444
- CVE-2017-5446
- CVE-2017-5447
- CVE-2017-5465
- CVE-2016-10196
- CVE-2017-5454
- CVE-2017-5469
- CVE-2017-5445
- CVE-2017-5449
- CVE-2017-5451
- CVE-2017-5462
- CVE-2017-5467
- CVE-2017-5430
- CVE-2017-5429
- CVE-2017-5448
- CVE-2017-5455
- CVE-2017-5456
- CVE-2017-5450
- CVE-2017-5463
- CVE-2017-5452
- CVE-2017-5453
- CVE-2017-5458
- CVE-2017-5468
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- package-manager/debian