CVE-2017-7842

medium

Description

If a document's Referrer Policy attribute is set to "no-referrer" sometimes two network requests are made for "<link>" elements instead of one. One of these requests includes the referrer instead of respecting the set policy to not include a referrer on requests. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397064

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-06-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium