Security restrictions bypass in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5137
Published: March 13, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU10981
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5137
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can use a maliciously crafted path string to reference the resource and load a legacy extension's non-contentaccessible, defined resources by an arbitrary web page through script.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5137
Update to version 59.0.