Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-12383

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Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-12383

Published: September 6, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14641
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-12383
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 on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to the older stored password file was not deleted when the data was copied to a new format starting. A remote unauthenticated attacker can access stored password data.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
Mozilla Thunderbird
firefox-esr (Debian package)

How to mitigate CVE-2018-12383

Update to version 62.0.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 62.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 60.2.1
Firefox ESR - update to 60.2.1
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 60.2.1esr-1~deb9u1

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