Security Advisory

CVE-2017-7836

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-06-11 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 16:19:28

Assigner mozilla

State PUBLISHED

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 Firefoxs 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.

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