PT-2017-17941 · Mozilla+2 · Firefox+2

Amit Sangra · Published 2017-08-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-7783

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 55

Description The issue occurs when a long user name is used in a username/password combination in a site URL, causing the resulting modal prompt to hang in a non-responsive state or crash. This results in a denial of service.

Recommendations For versions prior to 55, update to version 55 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2060

ALT-PU-2018-1854

CVE-2017-7783

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-3391-1

USN-3391-2

USN-3391-3

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Ubuntu

References · 1905

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/43020 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360842 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7806 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7800 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3391-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7809 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7802 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7803 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7799 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7780 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3391-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7788 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7783 · Security Note