Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-7844
CVE-2017-7844
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.
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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
Patches
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References
4- www.securityfocus.com/bid/102039nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039954nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPermissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-27/nvdVendor Advisory
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