CVE-2017-7798

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.

• CWE-94

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100198Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039124Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2456Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1371586%2C1372112Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3928Third Party Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19/Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100198Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039124Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2456Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1371586%2C1372112Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3928Third Party Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/Vendor Advisory
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19/Vendor Advisory

Published

Jun 11, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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