CVE-2018-5174

3Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Trackepss 1.8%

exploitation probability

1.8%top 22% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

In the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Windows Defender SmartScreen honors the "SEE_MASK_FLAG_NO_UI" flag associated with downloaded files and will not show any UI. Files that are unknown and potentially dangerous will be allowed to run because SmartScreen will not prompt the user for a decision, and if the user is offline all files will be allowed to be opened because Windows won't prompt the user to ask what to do. Firefox incorrectly sets this flag when downloading files, leading to less secure behavior from SmartScreen. Note: this issue only affects Windows 10 users running the April 2018 update or later. It does not affect other Windows users or other operating systems. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.8, Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Firefox < 60, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.

Affected products

Mozilla · Firefox Mozilla · Firefox ESR Mozilla · Thunderbird Mozilla · Thunderbird ESR

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1447080 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104136 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896