CVE-2017-7815

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
MozillaFirefoxunspecified < 56affected

Weaknesses

  • Spoofing attack with modal dialogs on non-e10s installations

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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