Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2013-1717
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.024 (83.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr — versions 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2746 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/61896 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18367 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-75.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735 (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-1717?
- CVE-2013-1717 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under CWE-264. Published 2013-08-07.
- Is CVE-2013-1717 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.