CVE-2017-5417

MEDIUM

Firefox < 52.0 - Address Bar Spoofing via Drag-and-Drop Content Manipulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

When dragging content from the primary browser pane to the addressbar on a malicious site, it is possible to change the addressbar so that the displayed location following navigation does not match the URL of the newly loaded page. This allows for spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791597
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037966
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96692

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0037
EPSS Percentile 58.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox < 52.0
Published Jun 11, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026