PT-2017-16470 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Esr+7

Armin Ebert · Published 2017-01-24 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5383

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Thunderbird versions prior to 45.7 Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.7 Firefox versions prior to 51

Description The issue allows for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar due to URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes not properly triggering punycode display.

Recommendations For Thunderbird versions prior to 45.7, update to version 45.7 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 45.7, update to version 45.7 or later. For Firefox versions prior to 51, update to version 51 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1089

ALT-PU-2017-1138

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CESA-2017_0190

CESA-2017_0238

CVE-2017-5383

DLA-800-1

DLA-896-1

DSA-3771-1

DSA-3832-1

MGASA-2017-0023

MGASA-2017-0039

MGASA-2017-0323

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:0354-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017:0357-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0358-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2017:0190

RHSA-2017:0238

RHSA-2017_0190

RHSA-2017_0238

SUSE-SU-2017:0426-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0427-1

USN-3165-1

USN-3175-1

USN-3175-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2047

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5390 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-03 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5374 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5373 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9904 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1323338 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5387 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2017:0357-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:0427-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.html · Vendor Advisory