CVE-2017-7815 Other in Firefox

What is CVE-2017-7815?

CVE-2017-7815 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

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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7815?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2017-7815?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-7815 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7815 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r5q3-cfrm-hqph, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7815.