Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-5395 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

047910
CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
NONE
network
mozilla
google
CWE-20
nessus
NVD
Published: 2018-06-11
Updated: 2018-08-14

Summary

Malicious sites can display a spoofed location bar on a subsequently loaded page when the existing location bar on the new page is scrolled out of view if navigations between pages can be timed correctly. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Mozilla
335
OS
Google
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
  • Cross Zone Scripting
    An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
  • Cross Site Scripting through Log Files
    An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
  • Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.

Nessus

  • NASL familySuSE Local Security Checks
    NASL idOPENSUSE-2017-187.NASL
    descriptionThis update for MozillaFirefox to version 51.0.1 fixes security issues and bugs. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5375: Excessive JIT code allocation allows bypass of ASLR and DEP (bmo#1325200, boo#1021814) - CVE-2017-5376: Use-after-free in XSL (bmo#1311687, boo#1021817) CVE-2017-5377: Memory corruption with transforms to create gradients in Skia (bmo#1306883, boo#1021826) - CVE-2017-5378: Pointer and frame data leakage of JavaScript objects (bmo#1312001, bmo#1330769, boo#1021818) - CVE-2017-5379: Use-after-free in Web Animations (bmo#1309198,boo#1021827) - CVE-2017-5380: Potential use-after-free during DOM manipulations (bmo#1322107, boo#1021819) - CVE-2017-5390: Insecure communication methods in Developer Tools JSON viewer (bmo#1297361, boo#1021820) - CVE-2017-5389: WebExtensions can install additional add-ons via modified host requests (bmo#1308688, boo#1021828) - CVE-2017-5396: Use-after-free with Media Decoder (bmo#1329403, boo#1021821) - CVE-2017-5381: Certificate Viewer exporting can be used to navigate and save to arbitrary filesystem locations (bmo#1017616, boo#1021830) - CVE-2017-5382: Feed preview can expose privileged content errors and exceptions (bmo#1295322, boo#1021831) - CVE-2017-5383: Location bar spoofing with unicode characters (bmo#1323338, bmo#1324716, boo#1021822) - CVE-2017-5384: Information disclosure via Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) (bmo#1255474, boo#1021832) - CVE-2017-5385: Data sent in multipart channels ignores referrer-policy response headers (bmo#1295945, boo#1021833) - CVE-2017-5386: WebExtensions can use data: protocol to affect other extensions (bmo#1319070, boo#1021823) - CVE-2017-5391: Content about: pages can load privileged about: pages (bmo#1309310, boo#1021835) - CVE-2017-5393: Remove addons.mozilla.org CDN from whitelist for mozAddonManager (bmo#1309282, boo#1021837) - CVE-2017-5387: Disclosure of local file existence through TRACK tag error messages (bmo#1295023, boo#1021839) - CVE-2017-5388: WebRTC can be used to generate a large amount of UDP traffic for DDOS attacks (bmo#1281482, boo#1021840) - CVE-2017-5374: Memory safety bugs (boo#1021841) - CVE-2017-5373: Memory safety bugs (boo#1021824) These non-security issues in MozillaFirefox were fixed : - Added support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback - Added support for WebGL 2 - Added Georgian (ka) and Kabyle (kab) locales - Support saving passwords for forms without
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    modified2017-02-02
    plugin id96940
    published2017-02-02
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96940
    titleopenSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-2017-187)
    code
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These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2017-5375: Excessive JIT code allocation allows
    bypass of ASLR and DEP (bmo#1325200, boo#1021814)

  - CVE-2017-5376: Use-after-free in XSL (bmo#1311687,
    boo#1021817) CVE-2017-5377: Memory corruption with
    transforms to create gradients in Skia (bmo#1306883,
    boo#1021826)

  - CVE-2017-5378: Pointer and frame data leakage of
    JavaScript objects (bmo#1312001, bmo#1330769,
    boo#1021818)

  - CVE-2017-5379: Use-after-free in Web Animations
    (bmo#1309198,boo#1021827)

  - CVE-2017-5380: Potential use-after-free during DOM
    manipulations (bmo#1322107, boo#1021819)

  - CVE-2017-5390: Insecure communication methods in
    Developer Tools JSON viewer (bmo#1297361, boo#1021820)

  - CVE-2017-5389: WebExtensions can install additional
    add-ons via modified host requests (bmo#1308688,
    boo#1021828)

  - CVE-2017-5396: Use-after-free with Media Decoder
    (bmo#1329403, boo#1021821)

  - CVE-2017-5381: Certificate Viewer exporting can be used
    to navigate and save to arbitrary filesystem locations
    (bmo#1017616, boo#1021830)

  - CVE-2017-5382: Feed preview can expose privileged
    content errors and exceptions (bmo#1295322, boo#1021831)

  - CVE-2017-5383: Location bar spoofing with unicode
    characters (bmo#1323338, bmo#1324716, boo#1021822)

  - CVE-2017-5384: Information disclosure via Proxy
    Auto-Config (PAC) (bmo#1255474, boo#1021832)

  - CVE-2017-5385: Data sent in multipart channels ignores
    referrer-policy response headers (bmo#1295945,
    boo#1021833)

  - CVE-2017-5386: WebExtensions can use data: protocol to
    affect other extensions (bmo#1319070, boo#1021823)

  - CVE-2017-5391: Content about: pages can load privileged
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  - CVE-2017-5393: Remove addons.mozilla.org CDN from
    whitelist for mozAddonManager (bmo#1309282, boo#1021837)

  - CVE-2017-5387: Disclosure of local file existence
    through TRACK tag error messages (bmo#1295023,
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  - CVE-2017-5388: WebRTC can be used to generate a large
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    boo#1021840)

  - CVE-2017-5374: Memory safety bugs (boo#1021841)

  - CVE-2017-5373: Memory safety bugs (boo#1021824)

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  - Added support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
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  - Added support for WebGL 2

  - Added Georgian (ka) and Kabyle (kab) locales

  - Support saving passwords for forms without 'submit'
    events

  - Improved video performance for users without GPU
    acceleration

  - Zoom indicator is shown in the URL bar if the zoom level
    is not at default level

  - View passwords from the prompt before saving them

  - Remove Belarusian (be) locale

  - Use Skia for content rendering (Linux)

  - Improve recognition of LANGUAGE env variable
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  - Multiprocess incompatibility did not correctly register
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
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  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/06/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/02/01");
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  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");

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}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release");
if (isnull(release) || release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "openSUSE");
if (release !~ "^(SUSE42\.1|SUSE42\.2)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, "openSUSE", "42.1 / 42.2", release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

ourarch = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (!ourarch) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (ourarch !~ "^(i586|i686|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i586 / i686 / x86_64", ourarch);

flag = 0;

if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"MozillaFirefox-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"MozillaFirefox-debugsource-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"MozillaFirefox-devel-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-common-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-other-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-buildsymbols-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-debuginfo-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-debugsource-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-devel-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-common-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;
if ( rpm_check(release:"SUSE42.2", reference:"MozillaFirefox-translations-other-51.0.1-50.2") ) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "MozillaFirefox / MozillaFirefox-branding-upstream / etc");
}
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    descriptionMozilla Foundation reports : Please reference CVE/URL list for details
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id96743
    published2017-01-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/96743
    titleFreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (e60169c4-aa86-46b0-8ae2-0d81f683df09)

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