CVE-2013-1717 in Firefox
Summary
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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Reservation
02/13/2013
Disclosure
08/06/2013
Status
Confirmed
Entries
VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:
| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9876 | Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Java Plugin File Origin Policy access control | 264 | Not defined | Official fix | CVE-2013-1717 |