CVE-2017-7844

medium

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.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-27/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420001

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039954

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102039

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-08-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium