Domain hijacking in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7807

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Domain hijacking in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7807

Published: August 14, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7838
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7807
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to hijack the domain on the target system.

The weakness exists due to improper access controls. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, invoke AppCache and hijack a URL in a domain.

Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7807

Update to version 55.0.


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