CVE-2017-7842
N/A
Published: June 11, 2018 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:25 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFirefox
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (4)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101832VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039803x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397064x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2017-24/Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200
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