Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7759
Published: June 15, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7102
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7759
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
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.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
How to mitigate CVE-2017-7759
Update to version 54.0.
Mozilla Firefox - update to 54.0