CVE-2018-5157 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
Same-origin protections for the PDF viewer can be bypassed, allowing a malicious site to intercept messages meant for the viewer. This could allow the site to retrieve PDF files restricted to viewing by an authenticated user on a third-party website. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.8 and Firefox < 60.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages7 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6, 7.5
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-8h4g-cp4v-9cg4: Same-origin protections for the PDF viewer can be bypassed, allowing a malicious site to intercept messages meant for the viewer↗2022-05-14
OSV▶
CVE-2018-5157: Same-origin protections for the PDF viewer can be bypassed, allowing a malicious site to intercept messages meant for the viewer↗2018-06-11
CVEList▶
CVE-2018-5157: Same-origin protections for the PDF viewer can be bypassed, allowing a malicious site to intercept messages meant for the viewer↗2018-06-11
📋Vendor Advisories
4💬Community
1Bugzilla
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