#VU6356 Address bar spoofing in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-5451

 

#VU6356 Address bar spoofing in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2017-5451

Published: April 20, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6356
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5451
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla Firefox
Software vendor:
Mozilla

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to spoof browser address bar.

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing onblur event. A remote attacker can spoof the addressbar through the user interaction on the addressbar and the onblur event. The event could be used by script to affect text display to make the loaded site appear to be different from the one actually loaded within the addressbar.

This vulnerability affects only Firefox for Android.


Remediation

Update to Firefox 53.

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