Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability in Firefox for Android (Versions < 54)

CVE-2017-7770 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

A mechanism where when a new tab is loaded through JavaScript events, if fullscreen mode is then entered, the addressbar will not be rendered. This would allow a malicious site to displayed a spoofed addressbar, showing the location of an arbitrary website instead of the one loaded. Note: this issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop Firefox is unaffected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 54.

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