CVE-2017-7767
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:12
Severity ?
Summary
The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files with junk data using the Mozilla Windows Updater, which runs with the Maintenance Service's privileged access. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.2 and Firefox < 54.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 54
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