CVE-2017-7815

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-7815
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-11 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-06-25 19:22:00 UTC
DescriptionOn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mozilla Firefox Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Spoof URLs, Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks, Obtain Potentially Sensitive Information, and Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 56 — Mozilla CONFIRM www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
1368981 - (CVE-2017-7815) Firefox allows you to insert modal dialog in any domain CONFIRM bugzilla.mozilla.org Exploit, Issue Tracking
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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