Security Features Affecting mozilla package, versions [,52.6.0)(52.6.0,58.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379274
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jun 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-5117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 52.6.0, 58.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Features. If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different site than the one loaded. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.6, Firefox ESR < 52.6, and Firefox < 58.

CVSS Scores

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