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CVE-2017-7767 The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files with junk data using…

Description

The Mozilla Maintenance Service can be invoked by an unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files with junk data using the Mozilla Windows Updater, which runs with the Maintenance Service's privileged access. Note: This attack requires local system access and only affects Windows. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.2 and Firefox < 54.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Firefox ESR 52.2 earliest → < 52.2 52.2
Firefox 54 earliest → < 54 54

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