CVE-2017-5409

EPSS 0.4%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

11 Jun 2018Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

The Mozilla Windows updater can be called by a non-privileged user to delete an arbitrary local file by passing a special path to the callback parameter through the Mozilla 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 < 45.8 and Firefox < 52.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox Mozilla · Firefox ESR

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References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321814 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-06/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96696 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037966