CVE-2017-7836
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:19
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Firefox Version: unspecified   < 57
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