A combination of an external SVG image referenced on a page and the coloring of anchor links stored within this image can be used to determine which pages a user has in their history. This can allow a malicious website to query user history. Note: This issue only affects Firefox 57. Earlier releases are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.0.1.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102039 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039954 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420001 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-27/ 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-2017-7844

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:11.967

Modified: 2018-08-06T17:42:28.480


Link: CVE-2017-7844

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