Bug 1590493 – CVE-2017-7762 Mozilla: address bar username and password spoofing in reader mode

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Bug 1590493 - (CVE-2017-7762) CVE-2017-7762 Mozilla: address bar username and password spoofing in reader mode

Summary:	CVE-2017-7762 Mozilla: address bar username and password spoofing in reader mode

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7762

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1590697 1590495 1590694 1590696 1591001
Blocks:	1590497
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Reported:	2018-06-12 12:58 EDT by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2018-06-28 12:19 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	firefox 54
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:2112	None	None	None	2018-06-28 12:18 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:2113	None	None	None	2018-06-28 12:19 EDT

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Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-12 12:58:17 EDT

A flaw was found in Firefox versions before 54. When entered directly, Reader Mode did not strip the username and password section of URLs displayed in the address bar. This can be used for spoofing the domain of the current page.


References:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1358248
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/

Patch:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8868506&action=diff

Comment 3 Scott Gayou 2018-06-13 17:15:18 EDT

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Moderate, and a future update may address this flaw.

Comment 6 Doran Moppert 2018-06-28 01:58:13 EDT

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-15/

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-28 12:18:13 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:2112 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2112

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-28 12:19:37 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:2113 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2113

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