CVE-2017-5450

HIGH 7.5CVE-2017-5450 · Published 11/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-5450 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 53.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`< 53.0`	`53.0`

Description

A mechanism to spoof the Firefox for Android addressbar using a "javascript:" URI. On Firefox for Android, the base domain is parsed incorrectly, making the resulting location less visibly a spoofed site and showing an incorrect domain in appended notifications. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 53.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/97940 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1038320 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

< 53.0

53.0

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