CVE-2017-7842 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2017-7842 PUBLISHED

If a document's Referrer Policy attribute is set to "no-referrer" sometimes two network requests are made for "<link>" 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.

EPSS 0.36% · 58.1th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.36%

58.1th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	firefox	0, 56.0+build6-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	firefox	42.0+build2-0ubuntu1, 44.0+build3-0ubuntu2, 44.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	firefox	43.0.4+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 44.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 44.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Timeline

Nov 15, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7842 third-party-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/ third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3477-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7842 third-party-advisory

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