Bug 993605 (CVE-2013-1717) - CVE-2013-1717 Mozilla: Local Java applets may read contents of local file system (MFSA 2013-75)
Summary: CVE-2013-1717 Mozilla: Local Java applets may read contents of local file sys...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-1717
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 990364
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-06 09:26 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 23:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-06-10 21:11:02 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1140 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2013-08-07 12:21:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1142 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2013-08-07 22:08:51 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-08-06 09:26:34 UTC
Security researcher Georgi Guninski reported an issue with Java applets where in some circumstances the applet could access files on the local system when loaded using the a file:/// URI and violate file origin policy due to interaction with the codebase parameter. This affects applets running on the local file system. Mozilla developer John Schoenick later discovered that fixes for this issue were inadequate and allowed the invocation of Java applets to bypass security checks in additional circumstances. This could lead to untrusted Java applets having read-only access on the local files system if used in conjunction with a method to download a file to a known or guessable path.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-75.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Georgi Guninski as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-07 08:24:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1140 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1140.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-08-07 18:10:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1142 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1142.html


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