CVE-2017-7815

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.3 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2018-06-11

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368981
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/