CVE-2017-7815: mozilla firefox Improper Input Validation
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2017-7815 is a medium (CVSS 5.3) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 3Timeline
- 11-06-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.3MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
1.14%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
66%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
-0.02 pp
From 1.16% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Mozilla1 product
- firefox≥ unspecified, < 56 | ≤ 55.0.3
Ubuntu1 product
- firefox< 56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | < 56.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | < 56.0+build6-0ubuntu1
2 vendors · 2 products