Security restrictions bypass in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-7835
Published: November 15, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU9322
CSH Severity: Low
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-2017-7835
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.
Mixed content blocking of insecure (HTTP) sub-resources in a secure (HTTPS) document was not correctly applied for resources that redirect from HTTPS to HTTP, allowing content that should be blocked, such as scripts, to be loaded on a page.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
Arch Linux
Ubuntu
Arch Linux
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2017-7835
Update to version Firefox 57.