CVE-2017-5450

high

Description

A mechanism to spoof the Firefox for Android addressbar using a "javascript:" URI. On Firefox for Android, the base domain is parsed incorrectly, making the resulting location less visibly a spoofed site and showing an incorrect domain in appended notifications. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 53.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325955

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-07-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High