CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7783
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-20
Description
If a long user name is used in a username/password combination in a site URL (such as " http://UserName:[email protected]"), the resulting modal prompt will hang in a non-responsive state or crash, causing a denial of service. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 55.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 55.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100401 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039124 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360842 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43020/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100401 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039124 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360842 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43020/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-18/ Vendor Advisory