CVE-2017-7836Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.05%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

debiandebian/firefox< firefox 57.0-1 (sid)
CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified57
NVDmozilla/firefox56.0.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-c8qj-chqj-f8j2: The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace2022-05-13

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-7836: firefox - The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads ...2017