Bug 1443340 (CVE-2017-5451) - CVE-2017-5451 Mozilla: Addressbar spoofing with onblur event (MFSA 2017-12)
Summary: CVE-2017-5451 Mozilla: Addressbar spoofing with onblur event (MFSA 2017-12)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5451
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2017-04-19 06:26 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 22:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-12 05:49:09 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1106 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-04-21 04:49:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1201 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-05-08 10:45:45 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-04-19 06:26:35 UTC 
A mechanism to spoof the addressbar through the user interaction on the addressbar and the <code>onblur</code> event. The event could be used by script to affect text display to make the loaded site appear to be different from the one actually loaded within the addressbar.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5451


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jordi Chancel
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-21 00:53:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1106 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-08 06:49:31 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1201 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201
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