CVE-2017-5463 Other in Firefox

What is CVE-2017-5463?

CVE-2017-5463 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

Android intents can be used to launch Firefox for Android in reader mode with a user specified URL. This allows an attacker to spoof the contents of the addressbar as displayed to users. Note: This attack only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 53.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-5463?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2017-5463?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-5463 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-5463 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-5463 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vg32-fmv3-phhm.