CVE-2017-5451

MEDIUM

Description

A mechanism to spoof the addressbar through the user interaction on the addressbar and the "onblur" event. The event could be used by script to affect text display to make the loaded site appear to be different from the one actually loaded within the addressbar. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1273537

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-12/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-13/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-08-09

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Impact Score: 1.4

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM