CVE-2017-7815

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.

• CWE-20

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368981Exploit, Issue Tracking
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/Vendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101057Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039465Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368981Exploit, Issue Tracking
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/Vendor Advisory

Published

Jun 11, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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