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CVE-2017-7836
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-11T21:29:11.657 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:25:18.823

Summary

The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace. This allows for privilege escalation as the replaced libcurl code will run with Firefox's privileges. Note: This attack requires an attacker have local system access and only affects OS X and Linux. Windows systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Affected products

mozilla — firefox

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