CVE-2017-5388 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling8 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
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Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

A STUN server in conjunction with a large number of "webkitRTCPeerConnection" objects can be used to send large STUN packets in a short period of time due to a lack of rate limiting being applied on e10s systems, allowing for a denial of service attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 51.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 51
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 51.0
▶debiandebian/firefox-esr< firefox 51.0-1 (sid)
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 51.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-hvw3-mf8r-hgvr: A STUN server in conjunction with a large number of "webkitRTCPeerConnection" objects can be used to send large STUN packets in a short period of time↗2022-05-13
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OSV
firefox regression↗2017-02-06
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-01-27
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OSV
CVE-2017-5388: A STUN server in conjunction with a large number of "webkitRTCPeerConnection" objects can be used to send large STUN packets in a short period of time↗2017-01-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2017-02-06
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-01-27
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Debian
CVE-2017-5388: firefox - A STUN server in conjunction with a large number of "webkitRTCPeerConnection" ob...↗2017
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