CVE-2017-5393 describes a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 51, where the "mozAddonManager" could be abused. In conjunction with a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack on Mozilla Add-ons (AMO) sites, this flaw allowed malicious extensions to install further extensions directly from the AMO CDN. This is a medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) with a low attack complexity, requiring user interaction (UI:R) and impacting confidentiality and integrity (C:L, I:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 51.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 51CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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