CWE Code: 427
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 4.6
CWE Name:  Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): PARTIAL/PARTIAL/PARTIAL
Published Date: 2018-06-11
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-03