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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…
High8.8EPSS 2.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mozilla
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- XUL injection in the style editor in devtools
- CWE-94 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-94 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 52.3
- affected unspecified – < 55
References (7)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 100198 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2456 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1371586%2C1372112 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1039124 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-3928 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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