CVE-2017-5928

Summary

CVECVE-2017-5928
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-02-27 07:59:00 UTC
Updated2021-09-13 12:04:00 UTC
DescriptionThe W3C High Resolution Time API, as implemented in various web browsers, does not consider that memory-reference times can be measured by a performance.now "Time to Tick" approach even with the https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1167489#c9 protection mechanism in place, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct AnC attacks via crafted JavaScript code.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application W3 High Resolution Time Api - All All All
Application W3c High Resolution Time Api - All All All
Application W3c High Resolution Time Api - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/anc_ndss17.pdf MISC www.cs.vu.nl Technical Description
W3C High Resolution Time API CVE-2017-5928 Security Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
AnC - VUSec MISC www.vusec.net Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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