Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mozilla package, versions [,17.0.7][17.0.7,23.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.88% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2378884
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-1717  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 23.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mozilla Firefox before 23.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, Thunderbird before 17.0.8, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.20 do not properly restrict local-filesystem access by Java applets, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files by leveraging a download to a fixed pathname or other predictable pathname.

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