CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5387

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

Published: Jun 11, 2018 | Modified: Aug 07, 2018
CVSS 3.x
3.3
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The existence of a specifically requested local file can be found due to the double firing of the onerror when the source attribute on a tag refers to a file that does not exist if the source page is loaded locally. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.

Weakness

The product places sensitive information into files or directories that are accessible to actors who are allowed to have access to the files, but not to the sensitive information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 51.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References