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CVE-2017-7818

31
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 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
3.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0342 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 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 (5)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:52.4.0-1.el6_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:52.4.0-2.el6_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:52.4.0-1.el7_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:52.4.0-2.el7_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7818Important

Mozilla: Use-after-free during ARIA array manipulation (MFSA 2017-22)

Sep 28, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2831
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2885
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatch
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201803-14
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3987
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-4014
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-21
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-22
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-23
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/101055
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039465
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry