CVE-2018-5158 — Code Injection in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-94 — Code InjectionCWE-95 — Eval Injection14 documents10 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
43.0%
top 2.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
10
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRCanonical Ubuntu Linux+7 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateApr 26

Description

The PDF viewer does not sufficiently sanitize PostScript calculator functions, allowing malicious JavaScript to be injected through a crafted PDF file. This JavaScript can then be run with the permissions of the PDF viewer by its worker. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.8 and Firefox < 60.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages7 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 60
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.8.0+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 52.8
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+5

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

6
GHSA
Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer↗2022-05-14
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OSV
Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-5158: The PDF viewer does not sufficiently sanitize PostScript calculator functions, allowing malicious JavaScript to be injected through a crafted PDF file↗2018-06-11
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CVEList
CVE-2018-5158: The PDF viewer does not sufficiently sanitize PostScript calculator functions, allowing malicious JavaScript to be injected through a crafted PDF file↗2018-06-11
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OSV
firefox regression↗2018-05-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Oracle
Oracle Oracle Siebel CRM Risk Matrix: eDetailing (PDF Viewer) — CVE-2018-5158↗2022-10-15
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-05-11
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer↗2018-05-09
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Debian
CVE-2018-5158: firefox - The PDF viewer does not sufficiently sanitize PostScript calculator functions, a...↗2018
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
Arbitrary Javascript injection in PDF.js through FontMatrix↗2024-04-26
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HackerOne
XSS in PDF Viewer↗2020-05-23
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5158 Mozilla: Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer↗2018-05-09
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