# Exploit Title: Mozilla Firefox < 55 - Forcibly make someone view a web content # Category: Denial of Service # Date: 5/11/17 # CVE : CVE-2017-7783 # Affected Version: < Mozilla Firefox 55 # Tested on: Windows/Linux # Software Link: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0/releasenotes/ # Exploit Author: Amit Sangra # Website: http://CyberCriminals.net
# Description:
If a long user name is used in a username/password combination in a site URL (such as http://UserName:Password@example.com), the resulting modal prompt will hang in a non-responsive state or crash, causing a denial of service.
# Impact:
An attacker can create a webpage having some content and exploit. Now once a victim visits this webpage, his browser gets locked out and he is forcibly made to view attacker supplied content.