CVE-2018-12364Cross-Site Request Forgery in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 18
Latest updateMay 14

Description

NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, can send non-simple cross-origin requests, bypassing CORS by making a same-origin POST that does a 307 redirect to the target site. This allows for a malicious site to engage in cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages11 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified61
NVDmozilla/firefox53.060.1.0+1
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified60.1+1
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified60+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
GHSA-xf8j-qg2r-c2q8: NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, can send non-simple cross-origin requests, bypassing CORS by making a same-origin POST that does a 307 redirect to2022-05-14
OSV
CVE-2018-12364: NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, can send non-simple cross-origin requests, bypassing CORS by making a same-origin POST that does a 307 redirect to2018-10-18
CVEList
CVE-2018-12364: NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, can send non-simple cross-origin requests, bypassing CORS by making a same-origin POST that does a 307 redirect to2018-10-18
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2018-07-12
OSV
firefox regressions2018-07-10

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2018-07-12
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2018-07-05
Red Hat
Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins2018-06-26
Debian
CVE-2018-12364: firefox - NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, can send non-simple cross-origin requests, b...2018

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12364 Mozilla: CSRF attacks through 307 redirects and NPAPI plugins2018-06-26
CVE-2018-12364 — Cross-Site Request Forgery in Mozilla | cvebase