CVE-2017-7816

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

WebExtensions could use popups and panels in the extension UI to load an "about:" privileged URL, violating security checks that disallow this behavior. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 56.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
sid	Fixed	`56.0-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7816

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.