CVE-2017-5381 — Path Traversal in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-22 — Path Traversal8 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The "export" function in the 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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 51.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 51
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 51.0
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 51.0-1 (sid)
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 51.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-jw7x-8w43-2mrj: The "export" function in the Certificate Viewer can force local filesystem navigation when the "common name" in a certificate contains slashes, allowi↗2022-05-13
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OSV
firefox regression↗2017-02-06
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-01-27
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OSV
CVE-2017-5381: The "export" function in the Certificate Viewer can force local filesystem navigation when the "common name" in a certificate contains slashes, allowi↗2017-01-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2017-02-06
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-01-27
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Debian
CVE-2017-5381: firefox - The "export" function in the Certificate Viewer can force local filesystem navig...↗2017
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