CVE-2017-7766

published 2018-06-11

CVE-2017-7766: An attack using manipulation of "updater.ini" contents, used by the Mozilla Windows Updater, and privilege escalation through the Mozilla Maintenance Service…

Priority P3 36 high 7.8 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	firefox	—	—
debian	firefox-esr	—	—
mozilla	firefox	< 52.2.0	52.2.0
mozilla	firefox	< 54.0	54.0
mozilla	firefox	>= unspecified < 54	54
mozilla	firefox_esr	>= unspecified < 52.2	52.2

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_debian 7.8 LOW

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