Bug 1479209 (CVE-2017-7791)

Summary: CVE-2017-7791 Mozilla: Spoofing following page navigation with data: protocol and modal alerts (MFSA 2017-19)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
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Description Doran Moppert 2017-08-08 06:46:06 UTC
The `data:` protocol can be used to create a modal alert that will render over arbitrary domains following page navigation, allowing for the spoofing of the origin of the iframe content.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19/#CVE-2017-7791


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jose María Acuña

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-10 23:21:13 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:2456 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2456

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-24 06:46:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2534 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2534