PT-2017-16492 · Mozilla+2 · Firefox+2

Holger Fuhrmannek · Published 2017-03-07 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-5409

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.8 Firefox versions prior to 52

Description The issue allows a non-privileged user to delete an arbitrary local file by passing a special path to the callback parameter through the Mozilla Maintenance Service, which has privileged access. This requires local system access and only affects Windows, with other operating systems not being affected.

Recommendations For Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.8, update to version 45.8 or later. For Firefox versions prior to 52, update to version 52 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1322

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2017-5409

MGASA-2018-0018

SUSE-SU-2017:0714-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0732-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

References · 33

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321814 · Exploit
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5409 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:0732-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:0714-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-28 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-25 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0018 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-06 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0018.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5409 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19 · Vendor Advisory