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Vulnerability details: VCID-yj1m-aufw-yuct
Vulnerability ID VCID-yj1m-aufw-yuct
Aliases CVE-2017-5470
Summary Mozilla developers and community members Tyson Smith, Mats Palmgren, Philipp, Masayuki Nakano, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Gary Kwong, André Bargull, Carsten Book, Jesse Schwartzentruber, Julian Hector, Marcia Knous, Ronald Crane, and Nils Ohlmeier reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 53, Firefox ESR 52.1, and Thunderbird 52.1. 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 9.0
Risk 4.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
cvssv3 9.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5470.json
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
epss 0.03554 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
cvssv2 6.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3 7.3 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5470
cvssv3 9.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5470
archlinux Critical https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-302
archlinux Critical https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-303
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-17
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1440
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1561
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5470.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2017-5470
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1359639%2C1349595%2C1352295%2C1352556%2C1342552%2C1342567%2C1346012%2C1366140%2C1368732%2C1297111%2C1362590%2C1357462%2C1363280%2C1349266%2C1352093%2C1348424%2C1347748%2C1356025%2C1325513%2C1367692
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5470
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5472
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7749
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7750
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7751
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7752
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7754
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7756
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7757
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7758
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7764
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7771
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7772
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7773
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7774
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7776
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7777
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7778
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3881
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3918
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-17/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99041
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038689
1461264 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1461264
ASA-201706-19 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201706-19
ASA-201706-20 https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201706-20
AVG-302 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-302
AVG-303 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-303
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2017-5470 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5470
mfsa2017-15 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15
mfsa2017-16 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16
mfsa2017-17 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-17
USN-3315-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3315-1/
USN-3321-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3321-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2017-5470.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5470
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5470
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.87266
EPSS Score 0.03554
Published At Aug. 10, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:09:19.582520+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2017/mfsa2017-17.yml 37.0.0