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CVE-2018-5112

Development Tools panels of an extension are required to load URLs for the panels as relative URLs from the extension manifest file but this requirement was not enforced in all instances. This could allow the development tools panel for the extension to load a URL that it should not be able to access, including potentially privileged pages. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

Published

2018-06-11T21:29:13.343

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:08:07.897

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-552

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	≤ 57.0.4	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	16.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	17.10	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425224 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required ([email protected])
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/ Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425224 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/ Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)