Cross-site scripting in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5158

 

Cross-site scripting in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5158

Published: May 10, 2018 / Updated: May 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12535
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5158
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox

Detailed vulnerability description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to the PDF viewer does not sufficiently sanitize PostScript calculator functions. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks


How to mitigate CVE-2018-5158

Update to version 60.0.

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