Mozilla Firefox up to 53.x Maintenance Service Helper.exe access control
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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 53.x (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file Helper.exe of the component Maintenance Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The bug was discovered 06/13/2017. The weakness was published 06/13/2017 by Holger Fuhrmannek (Nils) with Microsoft Vulnerability Research as MFSA 2017-15 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-7761 since 04/12/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 101055 (SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE (SUSE-SU-2017:1669-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370431 (Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities. (mfsa2017-15,mfsa2017-16)).
Upgrading to version 54.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (101055). Similar entries are available at 102487, 102488, 102489 and 102490.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8
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Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-264
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 101055
Nessus Name: SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE (SUSE-SU-2017:1669-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 803347
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox ESR Security Updates(mfsa_2017-15_2017-16)-Windows
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Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firefox 54.0
Timeline
04/12/2017 🔍06/13/2017 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: MFSA 2017-15
Researcher: Holger Fuhrmannek (Nils)
Organization: Microsoft Vulnerability Research
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-7761 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1038689
SecurityFocus: 99057 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 06/14/2017 17:35Updated: 12/28/2020 15:17
Changes: 06/14/2017 17:35 (81), 10/17/2019 18:45 (8), 12/28/2020 15:17 (2)
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