PT-2017-16503 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Abdulrahman Alqabandi · Published 2017-03-07 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5420

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 52

Description A malicious page can load a "javascript:" url, which can then blank the URL displayed in the address bar. This allows an attacker to spoof an existing page without the malicious page's address being displayed correctly.

Recommendations For versions prior to 52, update to version 52 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1322

ALT-PU-2017-1578

CVE-2017-5420

MGASA-2018-0018

OPENSUSE-SU-2017_0690-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-3216-1

USN-3216-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 1912

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1284395 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5400 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0018.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3216-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3216-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5399 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5422 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5426 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5405 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/#CVE-2017-5420 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5420 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5420 · Security Note