Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-5427 - Race Condition vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
A non-existent chrome.manifest file will attempt to be loaded during startup from the primary installation directory. If a malicious user with local access puts chrome.manifest and other referenced files in this directory, they will be loaded and activated during startup. This could result in malicious software being added without consent or modification of referenced installed files. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_96ECA03113134DAF9BE29D6E1C4F1EB5.NASL description Mozilla Foundation reports : Please reference CVE/URL list for details last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 97592 published 2017-03-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97592 title FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (96eca031-1313-4daf-9be2-9d6e1c4f1eb5) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3216-2.NASL description USN-3216-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update resulted in a startup crash when Firefox is used with XRDP. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass same origin restrictions, obtain sensitive information, spoof the addressbar, spoof the print dialog, cause a denial of service via application crash or hang, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5399, CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5403, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405, CVE-2017-5406, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410, CVE-2017-5412, CVE-2017-5413, CVE-2017-5414, CVE-2017-5415, CVE-2017-5416, CVE-2017-5417, CVE-2017-5418, CVE-2017-5419, CVE-2017-5420, CVE-2017-5421, CVE-2017-5422, CVE-2017-5426, CVE-2017-5427). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 99121 published 2017-03-31 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99121 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : firefox regression (USN-3216-2) NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_52.NASL description The version of Mozilla Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 52.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Mozilla developers and community members Boris Zbarsky, Christian Holler, Honza Bambas, Jon Coppeard, Randell Jesup, Andre Bargull, Kan-Ru Chen, and Nathan Froyd reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 51 and Firefox ESR 45.7. 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. (CVE-2017-5398) - Mozilla developers and community members Carsten Book, Calixte Denizet, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, David Bolter, David Keeler, Jon Coppeard, Tyson Smith, Ronald Crane, Tooru Fujisawa, Ben Kelly, Bob Owen, Jed Davis, Julian Seward, Julian Hector, Philipp, Markus Stange, and Andre Bargull reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 51. 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. (CVE-2017-5399) - JIT-spray targeting asm.js combined with a heap spray allows for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks. (CVE-2017-5400) - A crash triggerable by web content in which an ErrorResult references unassigned memory due to a logic error. The resulting crash may be exploitable. (CVE-2017-5401) - A use-after-free can occur when events are fired for a FontFace object after the object has been already been destroyed while working with fonts. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5402) - When adding a range to an object in the DOM, it is possible to use addRange to add the range to an incorrect root object. This triggers a use-after-free, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5403) - A use-after-free error can occur when manipulating ranges in selections with one node inside a native anonymous tree and one node outside of it. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5404) - Certain response codes in FTP connections can result in the use of uninitialized values for ports in FTP operations. (CVE-2017-5405) - A segmentation fault can occur in the Skia graphics library during some canvas operations due to issues with mask/clip intersection and empty masks. (CVE-2017-5406) - Using SVG filters that don last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 97639 published 2017-03-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97639 title Mozilla Firefox < 52.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-344.NASL description This update for MozillaFirefox and mozilla-nss fixes the following issues : MozillaFirefox was updated to Firefox 52.0 (boo#1028391) - requires NSS >= 3.28.3 - Pages containing insecure password fields now display a warning directly within username and password fields. - Send and open a tab from one device to another with Sync - Removed NPAPI support for plugins other than Flash. Silverlight, Java, Acrobat and the like are no longer supported. - Removed Battery Status API to reduce fingerprinting of users by trackers - MFSA 2017-05 CVE-2017-5400: asm.js JIT-spray bypass of ASLR and DEP (bmo#1334933) CVE-2017-5401: Memory Corruption when handling ErrorResult (bmo#1328861) CVE-2017-5402: Use-after-free working with events in FontFace objects (bmo#1334876) CVE-2017-5403: Use-after-free using addRange to add range to an incorrect root object (bmo#1340186) CVE-2017-5404: Use-after-free working with ranges in selections (bmo#1340138) CVE-2017-5406: Segmentation fault in Skia with canvas operations (bmo#1306890) CVE-2017-5407: Pixel and history stealing via floating-point timing side channel with SVG filters (bmo#1336622) CVE-2017-5410: Memory corruption during JavaScript garbage collection incremental sweeping (bmo#1330687) CVE-2017-5408: Cross-origin reading of video captions in violation of CORS (bmo#1313711) CVE-2017-5412: Buffer overflow read in SVG filters (bmo#1328323) CVE-2017-5413: Segmentation fault during bidirectional operations (bmo#1337504) CVE-2017-5414: File picker can choose incorrect default directory (bmo#1319370) CVE-2017-5415: Addressbar spoofing through blob URL (bmo#1321719) CVE-2017-5416: Null dereference crash in HttpChannel (bmo#1328121) CVE-2017-5417: Addressbar spoofing by draging and dropping URLs (bmo#791597) CVE-2017-5426: Gecko Media Plugin sandbox is not started if seccomp-bpf filter is running (bmo#1257361) CVE-2017-5427: Non-existent chrome.manifest file loaded during startup (bmo#1295542) CVE-2017-5418: Out of bounds read when parsing HTTP digest authorization responses (bmo#1338876) CVE-2017-5419: Repeated authentication prompts lead to DOS attack (bmo#1312243) CVE-2017-5420: Javascript: URLs can obfuscate addressbar location (bmo#1284395) CVE-2017-5405: FTP response codes can cause use of uninitialized values for ports (bmo#1336699) CVE-2017-5421: Print preview spoofing (bmo#1301876) CVE-2017-5422: DOS attack by using view-source: protocol repeatedly in one hyperlink (bmo#1295002) CVE-2017-5399: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 52 CVE-2017-5398: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 52 and Firefox ESR 45.8 mozilla-nss was updated to NSS 3.28.3 - This is a patch release to fix binary compatibility issues. NSS version 3.28, 3.28.1 and 3.28.2 contained changes that were in violation with the NSS compatibility promise. ECParams, which is part of the public API of the freebl/softokn parts of NSS, had been changed to include an additional attribute. That size increase caused crashes or malfunctioning with applications that use that data structure directly, or indirectly through ECPublicKey, ECPrivateKey, NSSLOWKEYPublicKey, NSSLOWKEYPrivateKey, or potentially other data structures that reference ECParams. The change has been reverted to the original state in bug bmo#1334108. SECKEYECPublicKey had been extended with a new attribute, named last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-03-15 plugin id 97747 published 2017-03-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97747 title openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox / mozilla-nss (openSUSE-2017-344) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3216-1.NASL description Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass same origin restrictions, obtain sensitive information, spoof the addressbar, spoof the print dialog, cause a denial of service via application crash or hang, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5398, CVE-2017-5399, CVE-2017-5400, CVE-2017-5401, CVE-2017-5402, CVE-2017-5403, CVE-2017-5404, CVE-2017-5405, CVE-2017-5406, CVE-2017-5407, CVE-2017-5408, CVE-2017-5410, CVE-2017-5412, CVE-2017-5413, CVE-2017-5414, CVE-2017-5415, CVE-2017-5416, CVE-2017-5417, CVE-2017-5418, CVE-2017-5419, CVE-2017-5420, CVE-2017-5421, CVE-2017-5422, CVE-2017-5426, CVE-2017-5427). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 97600 published 2017-03-08 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2017-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97600 title Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3216-1) NASL family MacOS X Local Security Checks NASL id MACOSX_FIREFOX_52.NASL description The version of Mozilla Firefox installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 52.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Mozilla developers and community members Boris Zbarsky, Christian Holler, Honza Bambas, Jon Coppeard, Randell Jesup, Andre Bargull, Kan-Ru Chen, and Nathan Froyd reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 51 and Firefox ESR 45.7. 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. (CVE-2017-5398) - Mozilla developers and community members Carsten Book, Calixte Denizet, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, David Bolter, David Keeler, Jon Coppeard, Tyson Smith, Ronald Crane, Tooru Fujisawa, Ben Kelly, Bob Owen, Jed Davis, Julian Seward, Julian Hector, Philipp, Markus Stange, and Andre Bargull reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 51. 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. (CVE-2017-5399) - JIT-spray targeting asm.js combined with a heap spray allows for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks. (CVE-2017-5400) - A crash triggerable by web content in which an ErrorResult references unassigned memory due to a logic error. The resulting crash may be exploitable. (CVE-2017-5401) - A use-after-free can occur when events are fired for a FontFace object after the object has been already been destroyed while working with fonts. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5402) - When adding a range to an object in the DOM, it is possible to use addRange to add the range to an incorrect root object. This triggers a use-after-free, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5403) - A use-after-free error can occur when manipulating ranges in selections with one node inside a native anonymous tree and one node outside of it. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. (CVE-2017-5404) - Certain response codes in FTP connections can result in the use of uninitialized values for ports in FTP operations. (CVE-2017-5405) - A segmentation fault can occur in the Skia graphics library during some canvas operations due to issues with mask/clip intersection and empty masks. (CVE-2017-5406) - Using SVG filters that don last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 97637 published 2017-03-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/97637 title Mozilla Firefox < 52.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (macOS)