Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7791  

A content spoofing issue has been found in firefox < 55.0 and thunderbird < 52.3. On pages containing an iframe, the data: protocol can be used to create a modal alert that will render over arbitrary domains following page navigation, spoofing of the origin of the modal alert from the iframe content.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Content spoofing

Description

A content spoofing issue has been found in firefox < 55.0 and thunderbird < 52.3. On pages containing an iframe, the data: protocol can be used to create a modal alert that will render over arbitrary domains following page navigation, spoofing of the origin of the modal alert from the iframe content.

AVG-385 thunderbird 52.2.1-1 52.3.0-1 Critical Fixed

AVG-375 firefox 54.0.1-1 55.0-1 Critical Fixed

10 Aug 2017 ASA-201708-3 AVG-375 firefox Critical multiple issues

23 Aug 2017 ASA-201708-18 AVG-385 thunderbird Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/#CVE-2017-7791
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365875