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CVE-2017-5456
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-11T21:29:06.873 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:20:31.867

Summary

A mechanism to bypass file system access protections in the sandbox using the file system request constructor through an IPC message. This allows for read and write access to the local file system. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.1 and Firefox < 53.

Affected products

redhat — enterprise_linux

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References

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