CVE-2017-7836
HIGHMozilla Firefox < 56.0.2 - Uncontrolled Search Path
Title source: ruleDescription
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.
References (4)
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0009
EPSS Percentile
25.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Classification
CWE
CWE-427
Status
published
Affected Products (1)
mozilla/firefox
< 56.0.2
Timeline
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026