Security restrictions bypass in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5112
Published: January 24, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10197
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5112
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to the failure to enforce the requirement of the Development Tools panels of an extension to load URLs for the panels as relative URLs from the extension manifest file. A remote attacker can bypass security restrictions and load a URL that it should not be able to access.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5112
Update to version 58.0.