CVE-2017-5393: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 51.0 (fixed in 51.0)

Published 2018-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.