PT-2017-17946 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Daniel Jackson · Published 2017-11-29 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2017-7844

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 57.0.1

Description A malicious website can determine which pages a user has in their history by combining an external SVG image referenced on a page with the coloring of anchor links stored within this image. This issue allows a malicious website to query user history.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 57.0.1, update to version 57.0.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2739

ALT-PU-2018-1854

CVE-2017-7844

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

References · 1872

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7844 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7844 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-27 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-25728 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31743 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12392 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5698 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1701 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5687 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24713 · Note