CVE-2017-5451Improper Input Validation in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A mechanism to spoof the addressbar through the user interaction on the addressbar and the "onblur" event. The event could be used by script to affect text display to make the loaded site appear to be different from the one actually loaded within the addressbar. 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:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages10 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified53
NVDmozilla/firefox< 53.0+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

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-vvjr-2r7m-cm7q: A mechanism to spoof the addressbar through the user interaction on the addressbar and the "onblur" event2022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-5451: A mechanism to spoof the addressbar through the user interaction on the addressbar and the "onblur" event2018-06-11
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: Addressbar spoofing with onblur event (MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
Debian
CVE-2017-5451: firefox - A mechanism to spoof the addressbar through the user interaction on the addressb...2017

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5451 Mozilla: Addressbar spoofing with onblur event (MFSA 2017-12)2017-04-19
CVE-2017-5451 — Improper Input Validation in Mozilla | cvebase