CVE-2017-5419 — Improper Certificate Validation in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.21%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla ThunderbirdDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown through the operating system. This is a denial of service (DOS) attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52 and Thunderbird < 52.

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 Packages6 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 52.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 52
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 52

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-rg33-gjff-rggx: If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown throug↗2022-05-13
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OSV
firefox regression↗2017-03-30
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-03-07
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OSV
CVE-2017-5419: If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown throug↗2017-03-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Red Hat
curl: TLS session resumption client cert bypass↗2017-04-19
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Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2017-03-30
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-03-07
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Debian
CVE-2017-5419: firefox - If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventuall...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-7468 curl: TLS session resumption client cert bypass↗2017-04-19
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