CVE-2018-5152Use 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
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

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified60
NVDmozilla/firefox< 60.0
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+5
debiandebian/firefox< firefox 60.0-1 (sid)

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-v8rx-7xrc-grgm: WebExtensions with the appropriate permissions can attach content scripts to Mozilla sites such as accounts2022-05-13
OSV
firefox regression2018-05-18
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities2018-05-11
OSV
CVE-2018-5152: WebExtensions with the appropriate permissions can attach content scripts to Mozilla sites such as accounts2018-05-11

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Firefox regression2018-05-18
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2018-05-11
Red Hat
Mozilla: WebExtensions information leak through webRequest API2018-05-09
Debian
CVE-2018-5152: firefox - WebExtensions with the appropriate permissions can attach content scripts to Moz...2018

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5152 Mozilla: WebExtensions information leak through webRequest API2018-05-09