CVE-2017-5375

Enterprise Linux Desktop vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

33.2%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

JIT code allocation can allow for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.

Affected vendor

Redhat

Affected product

Enterprise Linux Desktop

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2018-06-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 33.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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