Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5381  

The "export" function in the Firefox < 51 Certificate Viewer can force local filesystem navigation when the "common name" in a certificate contains slashes, allowing certificate content to be saved in unsafe locations with an arbitrary filename.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Arbitrary file overwrite

Description

The "export" function in the Firefox < 51 Certificate Viewer can force local filesystem navigation when the "common name" in a certificate contains slashes, allowing certificate content to be saved in unsafe locations with an arbitrary filename.

AVG-157 firefox 50.1.0-1 51.0.1-1 Critical Fixed

29 Jan 2017 ASA-201701-39 AVG-157 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/#CVE-2017-5381
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017616