CVE-2017-5391 — Improper Privilege Management in Mozilla Firefox

8 documents5 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.4%
top 14.79%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxDebian Firefox-esr
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Special "about:" pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds, can load privileged "about:" pages in an iframe. If a content-injection bug were found in one of those pages this could allow for potential privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

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

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-w8p9-p5cr-4q8f: Special "about:" pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds, can load privileged "about:" pages in an iframe↗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-2017-5391: Special "about:" pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds, can load privileged "about:" pages in an iframe↗2017-01-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2017-02-06
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-01-27
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Debian
CVE-2017-5391: firefox - Special "about:" pages used by web content, such as RSS feeds, can load privileg...↗2017
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