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
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99057 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342742 | Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/ | Vendor Advisory |
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/ | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mozilla
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Updated: 2018-06-12T09:57:01
Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-7766
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:08.530
Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223
Link: CVE-2017-7766
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Redhat Information
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CWE