CVE-2017-7815

5.3 mediumEPSS 1.1%

On pages containing an iframe, the "data:" protocol can be used to create a modal dialog through Javascript that will have an arbitrary domains as the dialog's location, spoofing of the origin of the modal dialog from the user view. Note: This attack only affects installations with e10 multiprocess turned off. Installations with e10s turned on do not support the modal dialog functionality. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.3 medium

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

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2018-06-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mozilla:firefox

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368981
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057

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