CVE-2018-5152 — Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.5%
top 36.07%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13
Description
WebExtensions with the appropriate permissions can attach content scripts to Mozilla sites such as accounts.firefox.com and listen to network traffic to the site through the "webRequest" API. For example, this allows for the interception of username and an encrypted password during login to Firefox Accounts. This issue does not expose synchronization traffic directly and is limited to the process of user login to the website and the data displayed to the user once logged in. This vulnerability a…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04