Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5173
Published: May 10, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12559
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-2018-5173
CWE-ID: CWE-451
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 conduct spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the filename appearing in the Downloads panel improperly renders some Unicode characters. A remote attacker can spoof the filename and obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5173
Update to version 60.0.