CVE-2017-7842

5.3 mediumEPSS 1.5%

Medium (5.3) in mozilla firefox. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

If a document's Referrer Policy attribute is set to "no-referrer" sometimes two network requests are made for "<link>" elements instead of one. One of these requests includes the referrer instead of respecting the set policy to not include a referrer on requests. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.3 medium

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

EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 74% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-200
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/101832
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397064
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832

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