CVE-2017-5455

The internal feed reader APIs that crossed the sandbox barrier allowed for a sandbox escape and escalation of privilege if combined with another vulnerability that resulted in remote code execution inside the sandboxed process. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.1 and Firefox < 53.

CVSS v3.0

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

3.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 88th percentile

Published

2018-06-11

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341191

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-5451
• CVE-2017-5456
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• CVE-2017-5465
• CVE-2017-5447
• CVE-2017-5473