Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting (self-XSS) attacks where users are convinced to copy and paste text into the addressbar. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402896 Issue Tracking Permissions Required
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/ Vendor Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

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

Updated: 2018-06-12T09:57:01

Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-7839

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:11.780

Modified: 2018-06-25T18:46:39.987


Link: CVE-2017-7839

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