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Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-7836

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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 29.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 4.6
Products affected by CVE-2017-7836


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