CVE-2017-7766

N/A

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published6/11/2018

Last Modified11/25/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

microsoft:windowsmozilla:firefox

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99057(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689(security@mozilla.org)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342742(security@mozilla.org)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/(security@mozilla.org)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/(security@mozilla.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99057(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342742(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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