CVE-2017-7836

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    CVE-2017-7836

    Published: 11 Jun 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    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.

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

    Affected packages

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    Type: N/A

    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