CVE-2017-7836 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.05%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13
Description
The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace. This allows for privilege escalation as the replaced libcurl code will run with Firefox's privileges. Note: This attack requires an attacker have local system access and only affects OS X and Linux. Windows systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
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 Packages3 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
1GHSA▶
GHSA-c8qj-chqj-f8j2: The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace↗2022-05-13
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2017-7836: firefox - The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads ...↗2017