CVE-2017-7798 — Code Injection in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV9.1
EPSS
3.6%
top 12.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
The Developer Tools feature suffers from a XUL injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the web page source code. In the worst case, this could allow arbitrary code execution when opening a malicious page with the style editor tool. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.3 and Firefox < 55.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages7 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
🔴Vulnerability Details
6GHSA▶
GHSA-2f4j-64mc-h8m2: The Developer Tools feature suffers from a XUL injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the web page source code↗2022-05-14
OSV▶
CVE-2017-7798: The Developer Tools feature suffers from a XUL injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the web page source code↗2018-06-11
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-7798: The Developer Tools feature suffers from a XUL injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the web page source code↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
5Debian▶
CVE-2017-7798: firefox - The Developer Tools feature suffers from a XUL injection vulnerability due to im...↗2017
💬Community
1Bugzilla
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