PT-2017-16478 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Jerri Rice · Published 2017-01-24 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5391

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue concerns the loading of privileged "about:" pages in an iframe by special "about:" pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds. This could potentially allow for privilege escalation if a content-injection bug were found in one of those pages.

Recommendations For versions prior to 51, update to version 51 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1138

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2017-5391

MGASA-2017-0323

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0358-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-3175-1

USN-3175-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 1906

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5390 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5374 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5373 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5391 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5391 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5387 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5378 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/#CVE-2017-5391 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5376 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3175-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5391 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0323 · Vendor Advisory