CVE-2017-7768 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRDebian Firefox+1 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to read 32 bytes of any arbitrary file on the local system by convincing the service that it is reading a status file provided by the Mozilla Windows Updater. The Mozilla Maintenance Service executes with privileged access, bypassing system protections against unprivileged users. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefo…

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 54
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.2.0+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 52.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-mxf2-hfjf-3p4q: The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to read 32 bytes of any arbitrary file on the local system by convincing the se↗2022-05-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-7768: firefox - The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to read 3...↗2017
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