CVE-2017-7844

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
A combination of an external SVG image referenced on a page and the coloring of anchor links stored within this image can be used to determine which pages a user has in their history. This can allow a malicious website to query user history. Note: This issue only affects Firefox 57. Earlier releases are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.0.1.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2017-7844
  • Assigner
  • security@mozilla.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-06-11T21:29:11
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-08-06T17:42:28
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-200 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 57.0.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-27/ Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420001 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039954 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102039 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7844
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7844
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:40:15 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 07:50:57 2018-06-11T21:29Z 2018-06-11T21:29:11 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 07:50:57 2018-08-06T17:42:28 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 07:50:57 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated