CVE-2013-1717

CVE Details

Release Date:

2013-08-07

Description

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.

See more information about CVE-2013-1717 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2013-1140	2013-08-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2013-1142	2013-08-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2013-1140	2013-08-07
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2013-1140	2013-08-07
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2013-1142	2013-08-07
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2013-1140	2013-08-07

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