Riskcovery

CVE-2017-7766

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Updated
Aug 5, 2024
Reserved
Apr 12, 2017

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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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Firefox ESRMozilla
  • before 52.2Affected
FirefoxMozilla
  • before 54Affected

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