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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:19:28.357Z

Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7836

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:11.657

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-7836

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