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CVE-2017-5402

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5402 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Firefox versions prior to 52, Firefox ESR prior to 45.8, and Thunderbird versions prior to 52 and 45.8. This flaw occurs when a "FontFace" object is destroyed while events are still being fired, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it can be exploited remotely without user interaction, allowing for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.94%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0294 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:45.8.0-2.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: thunderbird-0:45.8.0-1.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:45.8.0-2.el6_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:45.8.0-1.el6_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:52.0-4.el7_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:45.8.0-1.el7_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5402Critical

Mozilla: Use-after-free working with events in FontFace objects (MFSA 2017-06)

Mar 7, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0459.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0461.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0498.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201705-06
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201705-07
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3805
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3832
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-05
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-06
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-07
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-09
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96664
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1037966
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry