Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5454  

A security issue has been found in Firefox < 53, allowing 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.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox < 53, allowing 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.

AVG-249 firefox 52.0.2-1 53.0-1 Critical Fixed

21 Apr 2017 ASA-201704-6 AVG-249 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/#CVE-2017-5454
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349276