CVE-2013-1717: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: up to and including 22.0; version 19.0 only; version 19.0.1 only; version 19.0.2 only; version 20.0 only; version 20.0.1 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.20; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 17.0.7; version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: version 17.0 only; version 17.0.1 only; version 17.0.2 only; version 17.0.3 only; version 17.0.4 only; version 17.0.5 only; …

Published 2013-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.