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CVE-2017-7840

UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-11T21:00:00
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Description

JavaScript can be injected into an exported bookmarks file by placing JavaScript code into user-supplied tags in saved bookmarks. If the resulting exported HTML file is later opened in a browser this JavaScript will be executed. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting (self-XSS) attacks if users were convinced to add malicious tags to bookmarks, export them, and then open the resulting file. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

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No exploits available for this CVE.

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Affected Products

Mozilla

Firefox

Affected Versions:

unspecified

GitHub Security Advisories

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GHSA-gx4h-qpc9-477w

Advisory Details

JavaScript can be injected into an exported bookmarks file by placing JavaScript code into user-supplied tags in saved bookmarks. If the resulting exported HTML file is later opened in a browser this JavaScript will be executed. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting (self-XSS) attacks if users were convinced to add malicious tags to bookmarks, export them, and then open the resulting file. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7840
WEB https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366420
WEB https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24
WEB http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832
WEB http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 14, 2022, Modified: May 14, 2022

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1366420
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803
Published: 2018-06-11T21:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-05T16:19:28.484Z
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