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CVE-2017-5397

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Description

The cache directory on the local file system is set to be world writable. Firefox defaults to extracting libraries from this cache. This allows for the possibility of an installed malicious application or tools with write access to the file system to replace files used by Firefox with their own versions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.0.3.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published6/11/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

mozilla:firefox

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-829

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96144(security@mozilla.org)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1337304(security@mozilla.org)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-04/(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96144(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1337304(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-04/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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