CVE-2018-12388

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 62. 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 Firefox < 63.

CVSS v3.0 8.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

8.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/	Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1472639%2C1485698%2C1301547%2C1471427%2C1379411%2C1482122%2C1486314%2C1487167	Issue Tracking Permissions Required Vendor Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3801-1/	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041944	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105721	Third Party Advisory

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::lts:::

Information

Published : 2019-02-28 10:29

Updated : 2019-03-01 07:00

NVD link : CVE-2018-12388

Mitre link : CVE-2018-12388

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CWE

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

canonical

ubuntu_linux

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