CVE-2017-7767

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    CVE-2017-7767

    Published: 11 Jun 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99057, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336964

    Affected packages

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High