Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7807  

A domain hijacking flaw has been found in firefox < 55.0 and thunderbird < 52.3. A mechanism that uses AppCache to hijack a URL in a domain using fallback by serving the files from a sub-path on the domain. This has been addressed by requiring fallback files be inside the manifest directory.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Content spoofing

Description

A domain hijacking flaw has been found in firefox < 55.0 and thunderbird < 52.3. A mechanism that uses AppCache to hijack a URL in a domain using fallback by serving the files from a sub-path on the domain. This has been addressed by requiring fallback files be inside the manifest directory.

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-2017-7807
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376459