Published: 11/06/2018 Updated: 03/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 694

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown through the operating system. This is a denial of service (DOS) attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52 and Thunderbird < 52.

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USN-3216-1 introduced a regression in Firefox ...

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...

If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown through the operating system This is a denial of service (DOS) attack ...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2017-05 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 52 Announced March 7, 2017 Impact critical Products Firefox Fixed in Firefox 52 ...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2017-09 Security vulnerabilities fixed in - Thunderbird 52 Announced April 5, 2017 Impact critical Products Thunderbird Fixed in Thunderbird 52 ...

NVD-CWE-noinfo https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-09/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1312243 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037966 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96692 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3216-2/

CVE-2017-5419

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