Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-12365

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Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-12365

Published: June 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13487
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12365
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to a compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. A remote attacker can gain access to private local files.

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-2018-12365

Update to version 61.0.

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

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