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Arch Linux: Content spoofing (CVE-2017-7791)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A content spoofing issue has been found in firefox < 55.0 and thunderbird < 52.3. On pages containing an iframe, the data: protocol can be used to create a modal alert that will render over arbitrary domains following page navigation, spoofing of the origin of the modal alert from the iframe content.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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