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CVE-2017-5456

CVE-2017-5456

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 2.8%
exploitation probability
2.8%top 14% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
Mozilla · FirefoxMozilla · Firefox ESR
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344415https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320