Vulnerability CVE-2017-7783


Published: 2018-06-11

Description:
If a long user name is used in a username/password combination in a site URL (such as " http://UserName:Password@example.com"), the resulting modal prompt will hang in a non-responsive state or crash, causing a denial of service. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 55.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Mozilla Firefox < 55 Denial of Service
Amit Sangra
21.10.2017

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100401
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039124
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360842
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43020/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/

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