Input validation error - CVE-2017-5383
Published: June 11, 2018 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33566
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5383
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
URLs containing certain unicode glyphs for alternative hyphens and quotes do not properly trigger punycode display, allowing for domain name spoofing attacks in the location bar. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 45.7, Firefox ESR < 45.7, and Firefox < 51.
Affected software
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5383
Install update from vendor's website.
firefox-esr (Alpine package) - update to 45.7.0-r0
External References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0238.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95769
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037693
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1323338
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1324716
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-13
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-22
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3771
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3832
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-03/