CVE-2017-5463: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Android intents can be used to launch Firefox for Android in reader mode with a user specified URL. This allows an attacker to spoof the contents of the addressbar as displayed to users. Note: This attack only affects Firefox for Android. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 53.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 53.0 (fixed in 53.0)

Published 2018-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.