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CVE-2017-7818

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

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

9.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 28, 2017

Updated · November 26, 2025

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when manipulating arrays of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) elements within containers through the DOM. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56, Firefox ESR < 52.4, and Thunderbird < 52.4.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-416 · Use After Free