CVE-2017-5468 — Improper Initialization in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-665 — Improper Initialization10 documents7 sources
Severity
9.1CRITICALNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
2.2%
top 15.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

An issue with incorrect ownership model of "privateBrowsing" information exposed through developer tools. This can result in a non-exploitable crash when manually triggered during debugging. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 53.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 52.0.1-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 53
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 53.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 53.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+3

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-mwj6-29r9-vgq2: An issue with incorrect ownership model of "privateBrowsing" information exposed through developer tools↗2022-05-13
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OSV
firefox regression↗2017-05-11
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-04-21
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OSV
CVE-2017-5468: An issue with incorrect ownership model of "privateBrowsing" information exposed through developer tools↗2017-04-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2017-05-11
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2017-04-21
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Incorrect ownership model for Private Browsing information (MFSA 2017-10)↗2017-04-19
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Debian
CVE-2017-5468: firefox - An issue with incorrect ownership model of "privateBrowsing" information exposed...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-5468 Mozilla: Incorrect ownership model for Private Browsing information (MFSA 2017-10)↗2017-04-19
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