CVE-2017-7768

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to read 32 bytes of any arbitrary file on the local system by convincing the service that it is reading a status file provided by the Mozilla Windows Updater. The Mozilla Maintenance Service executes with privileged access, bypassing system protections against unprivileged users. 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=1336979

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3