CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7766
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
An attack using manipulation of "updater.ini" contents, used by the Mozilla Windows Updater, and privilege escalation through the Mozilla Maintenance Service to allow for arbitrary file execution and deletion by the Maintenance Service, which has privileged access. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.2 and Firefox < 54.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 52.2.0)
• mozilla firefox (< 54.0)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99057 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342742 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99057 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342742 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/ Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/ Vendor Advisory