GHSA-c8qj-chqj-f8j2
GitHub Security Advisory
⚠ Unreviewed
HIGH
Has CVE
Advisory Details
The "pingsender" executable used by the Firefox Health Report dynamically loads a system copy of libcurl, which an attacker could replace. This allows for privilege escalation as the replaced libcurl code will run with Firefox's privileges. Note: This attack requires an attacker have local system access and only affects OS X and Linux. Windows systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
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Key Information
7.5
/10
Dataset
Last updated: September 13, 2025 6:30 AM
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