CVE-2017-7766

Description

An attack using manipulation of "updater.ini" contents, used by the Mozilla Windows Updater, and privilege escalation through the Mozilla Maintenance Service to allow for arbitrary file execution and deletion by the Maintenance Service, which has 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

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342742

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99057

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3