CVE-2017-7766 — Improper Privilege Management in Mozilla Firefox
4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 61.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages5 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
1📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2017-7766: firefox - An attack using manipulation of "updater.ini" contents, used by the Mozilla Wind...↗2017
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
Mozilla Maintenance Service Privilege Escalation via updater.exe if Firefox is installed in non-default location↗2020-06-03