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CVE-2013-1717

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 22.0; 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 21.0 (+8)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.20; 2.0, 2.0-alpha_1, 2.0-alpha_2, 2.0-alpha_3, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-beta_2 (+140)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 17.0.7; 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+1)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5 (+2)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2746
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-75.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61896
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406541
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18367
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2735
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2746
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-75.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61896
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406541
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18367

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