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CVE-2017-5452
Malicious sites can display a spoofed addressbar on a page when the existing location bar on the new page is scrolled out of view if an…
Medium4.3EPSS 1.2%
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- Updated
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- mozilla
Description
Malicious sites can display a spoofed addressbar on a page when the existing location bar on the new page is scrolled out of view if an HTML editable page element is user selected. Note: This attack only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 53.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- Addressbar spoofing during scrolling with editable content on Firefox for Android
- CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (4)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344517 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 97940 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1038320 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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