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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-5471 json

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-14575

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 53. 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 < 54.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 54
  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 54.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5471

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • firefox Arch Linux 54.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-302

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Exploit prediction

1.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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