Improper Access Control Affecting mozilla package, versions [,52.1.0)(52.1.0,53.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.63% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378624
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-5456  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 52.1.0, 53.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. 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.

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