CVE-2017-5415 Other in Firefox

What is CVE-2017-5415?

CVE-2017-5415 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An attack can use a blob URL and script to spoof an arbitrary addressbar URL prefaced by "blob:" as the protocol, leading to user confusion and further spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-5415?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2017-5415?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-5415 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5415 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry and 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-xmh3-55xm-hpg9, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5415.