Information disclosure in Firefox ESR - CVE-2018-5131

 

Information disclosure in Firefox ESR - CVE-2018-5131

Published: March 13, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10970
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5131
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Firefox ESR

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to the fetch() API can return transient local copies of resources that were sent with a no-store or no-cache cache header instead of downloading a copy from the network as it should. A remote attacker can share a common profile while browsing and access previously stored, locally cached data of a website.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-5131

Update to version ESR 52.7.

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