CVE-2017-7839

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

Description

Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting (self-XSS) attacks where users are convinced to copy and paste text into the addressbar. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FirefoxMozilla	before 57Affected

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402896
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/
101832vdb-entry
1039803vdb-entry

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