PT-2017-16514 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+2

Daniel Veditz · Published 2017-04-19 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-5458

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 53 ALT Linux (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows for users to be socially engineered into executing an XSS attack on themselves. This occurs when a "javascript:" URL is drag and dropped by a user into the address bar, and the URL will be processed and executed.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 53, update to version 53 or later to resolve the issue. For ALT Linux, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1577

ALT-PU-2018-1854

CVE-2017-5458

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-3260-1

USN-3260-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Ubuntu

References · 1913

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1229426 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3260-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3260-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5435 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5430 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3260-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5468 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5456 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5441 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5454 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5462 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5442 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5465 · Vendor Advisory