CVE-2018-5137

Published: 14 March 2018

A legacy extension's non-contentaccessible, defined resources can be loaded by an arbitrary web page through script. This script does this by using a maliciously crafted path string to reference the resources. Note: this vulnerability does not affect WebExtensions. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 59.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Released (59.0+build5-0ubuntu0.17.10.1)
	bionic	Released (59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1)
	trusty	Released (59.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1)
	upstream	Released (59.0)
	xenial	Released (59.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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