CVE-2018-5117

3Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Trackepss 2.4%

exploitation probability

2.4%top 17% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

If right-to-left text is used in the addressbar with left-to-right alignment, it is possible in some circumstances to scroll this text to spoof the displayed URL. This issue could result in the wrong URL being displayed as a location, which can mislead users to believe they are on a different site than the one loaded. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.6, Firefox ESR < 52.6, and Firefox < 58.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox Mozilla · Firefox ESR Mozilla · Thunderbird

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0122 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0262 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1395508 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00030.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00036.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4096 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4102 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-03/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-04/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102783