CVE-2017-7844

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    CVE-2017-7844

    Published: 11 Jun 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A combination of an external SVG image referenced on a page and the coloring of anchor links stored within this image can be used to determine which pages a user has in their history. This can allow a malicious website to query user history. Note: This issue only affects Firefox 57. Earlier releases are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.0.1.

    References: , http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102039, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039954, https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-27/, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420001

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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