CVE-2017-7844 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A combination of an external SVG image referenced on a page and the coloring of anchor links stored within this image can be used to determine which pages a user has in their history. This can allow a malicious website to query user history. Note: This issue only affects Firefox 57. Earlier releases are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.0.1.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 57.0.1-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 57.0.1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 57.0.1
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 57.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-f748-8jpw-r245: A combination of an external SVG image referenced on a page and the coloring of anchor links stored within this image can be used to determine which p↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-7844: A combination of an external SVG image referenced on a page and the coloring of anchor links stored within this image can be used to determine which p↗2018-06-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-7844: firefox - A combination of an external SVG image referenced on a page and the coloring of ...↗2017
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