CVE-2017-5390 — Improper Privilege Management in Mozilla Firefox
9 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13
Description
The JSON viewer in the Developer Tools uses insecure methods to create a communication channel for copying and viewing JSON or HTTP headers data, allowing for potential privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages8 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Enterprise Linux 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-75jp-4qgr-vj32: The JSON viewer in the Developer Tools uses insecure methods to create a communication channel for copying and viewing JSON or HTTP headers data, allo↗2022-05-13
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-5390: The JSON viewer in the Developer Tools uses insecure methods to create a communication channel for copying and viewing JSON or HTTP headers data, allo↗2018-06-11
OSV▶
CVE-2017-5390: The JSON viewer in the Developer Tools uses insecure methods to create a communication channel for copying and viewing JSON or HTTP headers data, allo↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
4Red Hat
▶
Debian▶
CVE-2017-5390: firefox - The JSON viewer in the Developer Tools uses insecure methods to create a communi...↗2017
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-5390 Mozilla: Insecure communication methods in Developer Tools JSON viewer (MFSA 2017-02)↗2017-01-25