CVE-2017-7798

critical

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.5

Description

The Developer Tools feature suffers from a XUL injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the web page source code. In the worst case, this could allow arbitrary code execution when opening a malicious page with the style editor tool. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.3 and Firefox < 55.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`55.0-1`
sles		affected
debian	sid	fixed	`55.0-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`52.3.0esr-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`52.3.0esr-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`52.3.0esr-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`52.3.0esr-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.