CVE-2017-7815 — Improper Input Validation in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.79%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
On pages containing an iframe, the "data:" protocol can be used to create a modal dialog through Javascript that will have an arbitrary domains as the dialog's location, spoofing of the origin of the modal dialog from the user view. Note: This attack only affects installations with e10 multiprocess turned off. Installations with e10s turned on do not support the modal dialog functionality. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4
Affected Packages4 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-r5q3-cfrm-hqph: On pages containing an iframe, the "data:" protocol can be used to create a modal dialog through Javascript that will have an arbitrary domains as the↗2022-05-14
OSV▶
CVE-2017-7815: On pages containing an iframe, the "data:" protocol can be used to create a modal dialog through Javascript that will have an arbitrary domains as the↗2017-10-02