CVE-2018-18497 Affecting mozilla package, versions [,64.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2377435
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Feb 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Feb 2019

CVE-2018-18497  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 64.0 or higher.

Overview

Limitations on the URIs allowed to WebExtensions by the browser.windows.create API can be bypassed when a pipe in the URL field is used within the extension to load multiple pages as a single argument. This could allow a malicious WebExtension to open privileged about: or file: locations. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64.

CVSS Scores

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