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CVE-2017-7836
N/ADescription
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.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published6/11/2018
Last Modified11/21/2024
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
apple:mac_os_xlinux:linux_kernelmozilla:firefox
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-427
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832(security@mozilla.org)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803(security@mozilla.org)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401339(security@mozilla.org)
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/(security@mozilla.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401339(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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