CVE-2017-5394: mozilla firefox Cross-Site Request Forgery
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2017-5394 is a high (CVSS 8.8) Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 0.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2Timeline
- 11-06-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
A location bar spoofing attack where the location bar of loaded page will be shown over the content of another tab due to a series of JavaScript events combined with fullscreen mode. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.
CVSS metrics
2 scores · 1 source · 2 versionsEPSS trend
Probability
0.76%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
55%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Decrease -0.01 pp
From 0.77% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Mozilla1 product
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 51 | < 51.0
1 vendor · 1 product
References
4 links- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222798X Refsource CONFIRMExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory