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CVE-2017-7797

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7797 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 55, where response header names are globally stored without same-origin protections, allowing cross-origin access to these interned headers. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.5 (High), this network-exploitable flaw has low attack complexity and could lead to high confidentiality impact, though integrity and availability are not affected. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 55.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 55CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0081 is in the 28th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7797Low

Mozilla: Response header name interning leaks across origins (MFSA 2017-18)

Aug 8, 2017

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatch
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-18
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1039124
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry