CVE-2017-7836

The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace

published June 11, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
24.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00328 · 24.5th percentile
Published
2018-06-11T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 JUN 21:00Z
    The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace
    cvelistv5