CVE-2018-12400 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 50.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxDebian Firefox
Timeline
PublishedFeb 28
Latest updateMay 14

Description

In private browsing mode on Firefox for Android, favicons are cached in the cache/icons folder as they are in non-private mode. This allows information leakage of sites visited during private browsing sessions. *Note: this issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop versions of Firefox are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages3 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 63
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 63.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-wxmw-mw39-8fw9: In private browsing mode on Firefox for Android, favicons are cached in the cache/icons folder as they are in non-private mode↗2022-05-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2018-12400: firefox - In private browsing mode on Firefox for Android, favicons are cached in the cach...↗2018
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