CVE-2017-5417

Publication date 7 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

When dragging content from the primary browser pane to the addressbar on a malicious site, it is possible to change the addressbar so that the displayed location following navigation does not match the URL of the newly loaded page. This allows for spoofing attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 17.04 zesty
Fixed 52.0.1+build2-0ubuntu1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 52.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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