CVE-2017-5409 — Improper Privilege Management in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.87%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRDebian Firefox+1 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The Mozilla Windows updater can be called by a non-privileged user to delete an arbitrary local file by passing a special path to the callback parameter through the Mozilla 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 < 45.8 and Firefox < 52.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 52
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.0+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 45.8

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-3pwm-r9r6-wpwp: The Mozilla Windows updater can be called by a non-privileged user to delete an arbitrary local file by passing a special path to the callback paramet↗2022-05-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-5409: firefox - The Mozilla Windows updater can be called by a non-privileged user to delete an ...↗2017
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