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CVE-2017-5394
A location bar spoofing attack where the location bar of loaded page will be shown over the content of another tab due to a series of…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.76%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 45% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A location bar spoofing attack where the location bar of loaded page will be shown over the content of another tab due to a series of JavaScript events combined with fullscreen mode. Note: This issue only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 51.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.76% · top 45% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
References
4
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222798 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1037693 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-01/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 95763 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-14498 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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