Local file access via Open Link in new tab — Mozilla

2014-03-1800:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

5.8 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

56.3%

JSON

Security researcher Alex Inführ reported that on Firefox for Android it is possible to open links to local files from web content by selecting “Open Link in New Tab” from the context menu using the file: protocol. The web content would have to know the precise location of a malicious local file in order to exploit this issue. This issue does not affect Firefox on non-Android systems.