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CVE-2017-7814

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-7814 describes a vulnerability in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird where the Phishing and Malware Protection feature could be bypassed. This allowed malicious websites to trick users into downloading executables encoded with "blob:" and "data:" URLs, which would normally be flagged as suspicious. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a high potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0123 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 11,621 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:52.4.0-1.el6_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: thunderbird-0:52.4.0-2.el6_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:52.4.0-1.el7_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: thunderbird-0:52.4.0-2.el7_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-7814Moderate

Mozilla: Blob and data URLs bypass phishing and malware protection warnings (MFSA 2017-22)

Sep 28, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2831
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2885
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00000.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201803-14
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3987
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-4014
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-21
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-22
Vendor Advisory
mozilla.org / security/advisories/mfsa2017-23
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/101059
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039465
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry