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CVE-2017-7764

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7764 is a domain name spoofing vulnerability affecting Firefox versions prior to 54, Firefox ESR prior to 52.2, and Thunderbird prior to 52.2. It arises from the browser's handling of "Canadian Syllabics" Unicode characters in the address bar, which could be mixed with other Unicode blocks instead of being displayed as Punycode, leading to character confusion. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a potential impact of low integrity. While the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 52.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 54.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 52.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:52.2.0-1.el6_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:52.2.0-1.el6_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:52.2.0-1.el7_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:52.2.0-1.el7_3
View patch
mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7764Moderate

Mozilla: Domain spoofing with combination of Canadian Syllabics and other unicode blocks (MFSA 2017-16)

Jun 14, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1440
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:1561
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3881
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3918
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-15
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-16
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-17
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/99057
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038689
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
unicode.org / reports/tr31/tr31-26.html
Third Party Advisory