CVE-2017-7816

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 11, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Apr 12, 2017

Description

WebExtensions could use popups and panels in the extension UI to load an "about:" privileged URL, violating security checks that disallow this behavior. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 56Affected

References

1039465vdb-entry
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1380597
101057vdb-entry

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