Security restrictions bypass in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-18496

 

Security restrictions bypass in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-18496

Published: December 12, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16491
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18496
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an error when the RSS Feed preview about:feeds page is framed within another page. A remote attacker can use the RSS Feed preview about:feeds page in concert with scripted content for a clickjacking attack that confuses users into downloading and executing an executable file from a temporary directory.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-18496

Update to version 64.0.

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