Vulnerability CVE-2017-7839


Published: 2018-06-11

Description:
Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting (self-XSS) attacks where users are convinced to copy and paste text into the addressbar. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Type:

CWE-79

(Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402896
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/

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