The Developer Tools feature suffers from a XUL injection vulnerability due to improper sanitization of the web page source code. In the worst case, this could allow arbitrary code execution when opening a malicious page with the style editor tool. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.3 and Firefox < 55.
History

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Mozilla firefox Esr

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:12:28.384Z

Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7798

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:09.687

Modified: 2025-11-25T17:50:16.803

Link: CVE-2017-7798

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2017-08-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-7798 - Bugzilla