CVE-2018-12369

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 2.5%

exploitation probability

2.5%top 16% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

WebExtensions bundled with embedded experiments were not correctly checked for proper authorization. This allowed a malicious WebExtension to gain full browser permissions. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.1 and Firefox < 61.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox Mozilla · Firefox ESR

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1454909 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104561 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193