CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7836
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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
Description
The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace. This allows for privilege escalation as the replaced libcurl code will run with Firefox's privileges. Note: This attack requires an attacker have local system access and only affects OS X and Linux. Windows systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (<= 56.0.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401339 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401339 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/ Vendor Advisory