Security Advisory
CVE-2017-7836
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
June 11, 2018
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory