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

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

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Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2017-7762
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On:	1590495 1590694 1590696 1590697 1591001
Blocks:	1590497
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2018-06-12 16:58 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified:	2021-02-26 03:57 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)
Fixed In Version:	firefox 54
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Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:28:47 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:2112	0	None	None	None	2018-06-28 16:18:18 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:2113	0	None	None	None	2018-06-28 16:19:43 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2018-06-12 16:58:17 UTC

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 21:15:18 UTC

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 05:58:13 UTC

External References:

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

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-28 16:18:13 UTC

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 16:19:37 UTC

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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