CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-5409.md

CVE-2017-5409

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.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321814
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321814

Github

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