CVE-2017-5456
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2018-06-11 | |
| Impact: | None | What is this? |
Description
A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandboxusing 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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.5 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (firefox) | ELSA-2017-1106 | 2017-04-20 |
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