CVE-2017-5427

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (5.5) in mozilla firefox. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-362
Published: 2018-06-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96692
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037966
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1295542
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96692

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