Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5106
Published: January 24, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10185
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5106
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an error in the Developer Tools. A remote attacker can route style editor traffic through a service worker hosted on a third party website, bypass cross-origin restrictions via Developer Tools and obtain arbitrary files.
The weakness exists due to an error in the Developer Tools. A remote attacker can route style editor traffic through a service worker hosted on a third party website, bypass cross-origin restrictions via Developer Tools and obtain arbitrary files.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5106
Update to version 58.0.