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CVE-2017-7815

Published: 2 October 2017

On pages containing an iframe, the "data:" protocol can be used to create a modal dialog through Javascript that will have an arbitrary domains as the dialog's location, spoofing of the origin of the modal dialog from the user view. Note: This attack only affects installations with e10 multiprocess turned off. Installations with e10s turned on do not support the modal dialog functionality. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful
Released (56.0+build6-0ubuntu1)
bionic
Released (56.0+build6-0ubuntu1)
trusty
Released (56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
upstream
Released (56.0)
xenial
Released (56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
zesty
Released (56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.17.04.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N