PT-2018-8250 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Haosheng Wang · Published 2017-05-09 · Updated 2018-07-30 · CVE-2017-5450

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:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Firefox versions prior to 53

Description: The issue involves a mechanism to spoof the Firefox for Android address bar using a "javascript:" URI. This occurs because the base domain is parsed incorrectly on Firefox for Android, resulting in the location appearing less visibly as a spoofed site and displaying an incorrect domain in appended notifications.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 53, update to version 53 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1577

ALT-PU-2018-1854

CVE-2017-5450

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

References · 6

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325955 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5450 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5450 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/97940 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1038320 · Note