Privilege escalation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox or Firefox ESR - CVE-2017-7760| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:41091 | Date: (C)2017-06-16 (M)2024-03-27 |
| Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
Mozilla Firefox before 54.0 or Firefox ESR before 52.2 :- The Mozilla Windows updater modifies some files to be updated by reading the original file and applying changes to it. The location of the original file can be altered by a malicious user by passing a special path to the callback parameter through the Mozilla Maintenance Service, allowing the manipulation of files in the installation directory and privilege escalation by manipulating the Mozilla Maintenance Service, which has privileged access.
| Platform: |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
| Microsoft Windows 11 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 |
| Microsoft Windows 8 |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
| Microsoft Windows Vista |
| Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
| Microsoft Windows 10 |
| Product: |
| Mozilla Firefox |
| Mozilla Firefox ESR |
