Spoofing attack with modal dialogs on non-e10s installations in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7815

Vulnerability identifier: #VU8626

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7815

CWE-ID: CWE-451

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

On pages containing an iframe, the data: protocol can be used to create a modal dialog through Javascript that will have an arbitrary domains as the dialog's location, spoofing of the origin of the modal dialog from the user view.

Note: This attack only affects installations with e10 multiprocess turned off. Installations with e10s turned on do not support the modal dialog functionality.

Mozilla Firefox
Ubuntu

Update to version 56.0.

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/

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