CVE-2017-7818 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 56, Firefox ESR prior to 52.4, and Thunderbird prior to 52.4. This flaw occurs when handling arrays of ARIA elements within containers via the Document Object Model (DOM), leading to a potentially exploitable crash. Rated with a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Its FAUCET Risk Score is 95/100, indicating high severity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (not in KEV), and no public exploit code is available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, surpassing 99% of all CVEs.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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.