CVE-2017-7836 Information

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:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401339 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/ 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.

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8