Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-7842
CVE-2017-7842
Description
If a document's Referrer Policy attribute is set to "no-referrer" sometimes two network requests are made for "" elements instead of one. One of these requests includes the referrer instead of respecting the set policy to not include a referrer on requests. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 57.
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Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/firefox-esr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/MozillaFirefox&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 128.5.1-1.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 128.5.1-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 92.0-1.2
- Range: unspecified
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References
4- www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/nvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
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