Same-origin policy bypass in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-18494
Published: December 12, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16489
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18494
CWE-ID: CWE-264
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 bypass same-origin policy on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an error .when using the Javascript
The weakness exists due to an error .when using the Javascript
location property. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and theft cross-origin URL entries to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries(). How to mitigate CVE-2018-18494
Update to version 64.0.