CVE-2017-5397

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 11, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jan 13, 2017

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 51.0.3Affected

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1337304
96144vdb-entry
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-04/

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