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CVE-2017-7842
If a document's Referrer Policy attribute is set to "no-referrer" sometimes two network requests are made for "<link>" elements instead of…
Medium5.3EPSS 1.5%
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- mozilla
Description
If a document's Referrer Policy attribute is set to "no-referrer" sometimes two network requests are made for "<link>" elements instead of one. One of these requests includes the referrer instead of respecting the set policy to not include a referrer on requests. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
- Referrer Policy is not always respected for <link> elements
- CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (4)
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 101832 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1039803 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397064 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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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