PT-2018-8252 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox For Android+1

Muneaki Nishimura · Published 2017-05-09 · Updated 2018-08-09 · CVE-2017-5463

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description: The issue allows an attacker to spoof the contents of the address bar as displayed to users by launching Firefox for Android in reader mode with a user-specified URL using Android intents. This affects only Firefox for Android, with other operating systems not being affected.

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

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1577

CVE-2017-5463

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox For Android

References · 6

• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5463 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338867 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5463 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/97940 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1038320 · Note