Cross-site request forgery in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-12364

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Cross-site request forgery in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-12364

Published: June 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13486
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12364
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform CSRF attack.

The weakness exists due to insufficient CSRF protections. A remote attacker can use NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, send non-simple cross-origin requests, make a same-origin POST that does a 307 redirect to the target site, bypass CORS and conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
openSUSE Leap
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2018-12364

Update to version 61.0.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 61.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 60.0

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