Mozilla Firefox up to 50 Referer information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50. It has been declared as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Referer Handler. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability was named CVE-2017-5385. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox up to 50 (Web Browser). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Referer Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Data sent with in multipart channels, such as the multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type, will ignore the referrer-policy response header, leading to potential information disclosure for sites using this header. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

The bug was discovered 01/24/2017. The weakness was presented 01/24/2017 by Muneaki Nishimura (Alex) as MFSA 2017-01 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is available at mozilla.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-5385 since 01/13/2017. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 97047 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : firefox regression (USN-3175-2)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 196675 (Ubuntu Security Notification for Firefox Vulnerabilities (USN-3175-1)).

Upgrading to version 51 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (97047), SecurityFocus (BID 95763†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1037693†). See VDB-96001, VDB-96002, VDB-96003 and VDB-96004 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 97047
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : firefox regression (USN-3175-2)
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OpenVAS ID: 802170
OpenVAS Name: Mozilla Firefox Security Updates(mfsa_2017-01_2017-02)-Windows
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Firefox 51

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01/24/2017 +11 days 🔍
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01/25/2017 +1 days 🔍
01/26/2017 +1 days 🔍
02/07/2017 +12 days 🔍
06/11/2018 +488 days 🔍
08/02/2020 +783 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA 2017-01
Researcher: Muneaki Nishimura (Alex)
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-5385 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-5385
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-96018

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SecurityFocus: 95763 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: - CVE-2017-5385 - Mozilla - Firefox - Information Disclosure Issue
SecurityTracker: 1037693

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/26/2017 15:17
Updated: 08/02/2020 18:21
Changes: 01/26/2017 15:17 (82), 08/02/2020 18:21 (8)
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Cache ID: 216:687:103

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