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CVE-2017-7839

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CVE-2017-7839

Published: Jun 11, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting (self-XSS) attacks where users are convinced to copy and paste text into the addressbar. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.

VendorProductVersions

Mozilla

Firefox

affected
unspecified - < 57

References

101832
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
1039803
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK

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