Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7759

 

Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7759

Published: June 15, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7102
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7759
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper applying of same-origin policy.A local attacker can use Android intent URLs given to Firefox for Android to navigate from HTTP or HTTPS URLs to local file: URLs and read arbitrary files.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-7759

Update to version 54.0.

Sources