Vulnerability CVE-2017-7821


Published: 2018-06-11

Description:
A vulnerability where WebExtensions can download and attempt to open a file of some non-executable file types. This can be triggered without specific user interaction for the file download and open actions. This could be used to trigger known vulnerabilities in the programs that handle those document types. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Firefox browser.downloads addon feature may be used for RCE
leucosite
29.09.2017

Type:

CWE-732

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1346515
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/

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