A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox to use the file picker to access different files than those selected in the file picker through the use of relative paths. This allows for read only access to the local file system. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T15:04:14.622Z
Reserved: 2017-01-13T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-5454
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:06.750
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:27:39.413
Link: CVE-2017-5454
Redhat