CVE-2017-5450

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

A mechanism to spoof the Firefox for Android addressbar using a "javascript:" URI. On Firefox for Android, the base domain is parsed incorrectly, making the resulting location less visibly a spoofed site and showing an incorrect domain in appended notifications. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 53.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	>= unspecified, < 53

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325955Exploit, Issue Tracking
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97940Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038320Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325955Exploit, Issue Tracking
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-10/Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 11, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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