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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.4% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-1744)
- Published
- August 7, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-1744 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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- mozilla / seamonkey
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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(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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