CVE-2017-5460Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416Use After Free12 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection triggered by a combination of malicious script content and key presses by a user. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 45.9, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

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 Packages10 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified53
NVDmozilla/firefox< 53.0+2
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified45.9+1
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 53.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+3
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified52.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-pv8x-xwfx-grxv: A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection triggered by a combination of malicious script content and key presses by a user2022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-5460: A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection triggered by a combination of malicious script content and key presses by a user2018-06-11
OSV
CVE-2017-5460: A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection triggered by a combination of malicious script content and key presses by a user2018-06-11
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-05-16
OSV
firefox regression2017-05-11

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-05-16
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2017-04-21
Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in frame selection (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
Debian
CVE-2017-5460: firefox - A use-after-free vulnerability in frame selection triggered by a combination of ...2017

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5460 Mozilla: Use-after-free in frame selection (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
CVE-2017-5460 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox | cvebase