CVE-2017-5455

high

Description

The internal feed reader APIs that crossed the sandbox barrier allowed for a sandbox escape and escalation of privilege if combined with another vulnerability that resulted in remote code execution inside the sandboxed process. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.1 and Firefox < 53.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341191

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2019-10-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High