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ghsa-c8qj-chqj-f8j2

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:47

Modified

2022-05-13 01:47

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2017-7836 (GCVE-0-2017-7836)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-06-11 21:00

Modified

2024-08-05 16:19

Severity ?

CWE

Pingsender dynamically loads libcurl on Linux and OS X

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.

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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mozilla	Firefox	Version: unspecified < 57

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