Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5391  

In Firefox < 51, special about: pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds, can load privileged about: pages in an iframe. If a content-injection bug were found in one of those pages this could allow for potential privilege escalation.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Privilege escalation

Description

In Firefox < 51, special about: pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds, can load privileged about: pages in an iframe. If a content-injection bug were found in one of those pages this could allow for potential privilege escalation.

AVG-157 firefox 50.1.0-1 51.0.1-1 Critical Fixed

29 Jan 2017 ASA-201701-39 AVG-157 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/#CVE-2017-5391
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1309310