CVE-2017-7767

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Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files with junk data using the Mozilla Windows Updater, which runs with the Maintenance Service's 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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

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=1336964(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=1336964(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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