CVE-2017-7836

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

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 57Affected

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/
101832vdb-entry
1039803vdb-entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401339

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