CVE-2018-5096 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox ESR

CWE-416 — Use After Free8 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
Mozilla Firefox ESRMozilla ThunderbirdMozilla Firefox+7 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while editing events in form elements on a page, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.6 and Thunderbird < 52.6.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages8 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.6.0
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 52.6
▶CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified — 52.6
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 52.6.0
▶Debianmozilla/thunderbird< 1:52.6.0-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 6.0, 7.0, 7.4, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-22wm-h2wq-6vm3: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while editing events in form elements on a page, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-5096: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while editing events in form elements on a page, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash↗2018-06-11
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CVEList
CVE-2018-5096: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while editing events in form elements on a page, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash↗2018-06-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2018-01-29
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free while editing form elements (MFSA 2018-03)↗2018-01-23
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Debian
CVE-2018-5096: firefox-esr - A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while editing events in form elements o...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5096 Mozilla: Use-after-free while editing form elements (MFSA 2018-03)↗2018-01-23
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