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MFSA2017-18 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 55 (CVE-2017-7788)

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MFSA2017-18 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 55 (CVE-2017-7788)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/08/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/09/2017
Modified
08/13/2018

Description

When an "iframe" has a "sandbox" attribute and its content is specified using "srcdoc", that content does not inherit the containing page's Content Security Policy (CSP) as it should unless the sandbox attribute included "allow-same-origin". This vulnerability affects Firefox < 55.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-55_0

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