CVE-2017-5456

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5456
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5456.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5456
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-06-11T21:29:06.873Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:39:10.573959Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
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            {
                "last_affected": "7.4"
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]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5456.json"