CVE-2018-5188Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV4.3
EPSS
3.0%
top 13.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 18
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.

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 Packages11 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified61
NVDmozilla/firefox53.060.1.0+1
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified60.1+1
Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-r3cm-g44g-3hg8: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 522022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2018-5188: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 522018-10-18
OSV
CVE-2018-5188: Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 522018-10-18
OSV
firefox regressions2018-07-10
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities2018-07-05

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Spidermonkey vulnerabilities2018-08-22
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2018-07-12
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities2018-07-05
Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.92018-06-26
Debian
CVE-2018-5188: firefox - Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60, Firefox ESR 60, and Firefox ESR 52.8. ...2018

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5188 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 61, Firefox ESR 60.1, and Firefox ESR 52.92018-06-26
CVE-2018-5188 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase