CVE-2017-7768

N/A

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to read 32 bytes of any arbitrary file on the local system by convincing the service that it is reading a status file provided by the Mozilla Windows Updater. The Mozilla Maintenance Service executes with privileged access, bypassing system protections against unprivileged users. 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-200

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=1336979(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=1336979(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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