CVE-2017-5409 Privilege escalation in Firefox

What is CVE-2017-5409?

CVE-2017-5409 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 11 Jun 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Mozilla Windows updater can be called by a non-privileged user to delete an arbitrary local file by passing a special path to the callback parameter through the Mozilla Maintenance Service, which has privileged access. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 45.8 and Firefox < 52.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-5409?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2017-5409?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-5409 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5409 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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