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
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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=1336979 | 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-2017-7768
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:08.640
Modified: 2018-08-13T13:18:56.317
Link: CVE-2017-7768
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