CVE-2017-5449Improper Input Validation in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.1, Firefox ESR < 52.1, and Firefox < 53.

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 Packages10 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified53
NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.1.0+1
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified52.1
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+3
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified52.1

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-jqh9-5c52-gwx9: A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations2022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-5449: A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations2018-06-11
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-05-16
OSV
firefox regression2017-05-11
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities2017-04-21

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2017-05-16
Ubuntu
Firefox regression2017-05-11
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2017-04-21
Red Hat
Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
Debian
CVE-2017-5449: firefox - A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirec...2017

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5449 Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
CVE-2017-5449 — Improper Input Validation in Mozilla | cvebase