CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5388
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
A STUN server in conjunction with a large number of "webkitRTCPeerConnection" objects can be used to send large STUN packets in a short period of time due to a lack of rate limiting being applied on e10s systems, allowing for a denial of service attack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 51.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95763 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037693 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281482 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95763 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037693 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281482 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/ Vendor Advisory