CVE-2017-7811

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-06-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 55. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: before 56.0 — fixed in 56.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 56.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1392105%2C1395919%2C1388113%2C1348955%2C1394522%2C1387659%2C1369560%2C1388045%2C1378658%2C1379414%2C1385112%2C1367497
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1392105%2C1395919%2C1388113%2C1348955%2C1394522%2C1387659%2C1369560%2C1388045%2C1378658%2C1379414%2C1385112%2C1367497
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/

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