Description
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.
Published: 2018-06-11
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: 1.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16819 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.
History

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:19:29.400Z

Reserved: 2017-04-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-7844

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-11T21:29:11.967

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:32:47.030

Link: CVE-2017-7844

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