CVE-2017-7815

medium

Description

On pages containing an iframe, the "data:" protocol can be used to create a modal dialog through Javascript that will have an arbitrary domains as the dialog's location, spoofing of the origin of the modal dialog from the user view. Note: This attack only affects installations with e10 multiprocess turned off. Installations with e10s turned on do not support the modal dialog functionality. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368981

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-06-25

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: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium