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 |
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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 |
History
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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
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:11.967
Modified: 2018-08-06T17:42:28.480
Link: CVE-2017-7844
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE