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CVE-2013-1717

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1717 describes a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR, and SeaMonkey versions prior to their respective updates. This flaw allowed Java applets to bypass local-filesystem access restrictions, enabling user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files if a download occurred to a predictable or fixed pathname. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4, indicating a medium severity with high attack complexity, requiring user interaction, but potentially leading to complete confidentiality compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
17.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
17.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:17.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0242 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:17.0.8-5.el6_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:17.0.8-5.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.8-3.el5_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:17.0.8-1.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xulrunner-0:17.0.8-3.el6_4
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1717Moderate

Mozilla: Local Java applets may read contents of local file system (MFSA 2013-75)

Aug 7, 2013

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18367
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2735
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2746
mozilla.org / security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-75.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/61896