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A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 55 (Web Browser). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Design Mode. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use after free vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-416. Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The bug was discovered 09/28/2017. The weakness was disclosed 09/28/2017 by Nils as MFSA 2017-21 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-7819 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 neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 01/15/2021).
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 108820 (GLSA-201803-14 : Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 370584 (Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities. (mfsa2017-21,mfsa2017-22)).
Upgrading to version 56 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 (108820). The entries 107430, 107431, 107433 and 107434 are pretty similar.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9
VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploiting
Class: Use after freeCWE: CWE-416 / CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 108820
Nessus Name: GLSA-201803-14 : Mozilla Thunderbird: Multiple vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 53754
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 3987-1 (firefox-esr - security update)
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Firefox 56
Timeline
04/12/2017 🔍09/28/2017 🔍
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09/29/2017 🔍
10/04/2017 🔍
04/04/2018 🔍
06/11/2018 🔍
01/15/2021 🔍
Sources
Vendor: mozilla.orgProduct: mozilla.org
Advisory: MFSA 2017-21
Researcher: Abhishek Arya, Nils (Nils)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-7819 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1039465
SecurityFocus: 101055 - Mozilla Firefox and Firefox ESR Multiple Use After Free Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Entry
Created: 10/04/2017 11:52Updated: 01/15/2021 11:49
Changes: 10/04/2017 11:52 (80), 11/21/2019 19:20 (6), 01/15/2021 11:46 (2), 01/15/2021 11:49 (1)
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