CVE-2018-18499

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
Description
A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries(). This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 62, Firefox ESR < 60.2, and Thunderbird < 60.2.1.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-18499
  • Assigner
  • security@mozilla.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-02-28T18:29:01
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-03-01T14:40:24
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-346 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/346.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 62.0
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 60.2
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 60.2.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25/ Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-21/ Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-20/ Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468523 Issue Tracking Permissions Required Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18499
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18499
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:57:21 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 17:46:13 2019-02-28T18:29Z 2019-02-28T18:29:01 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 17:46:13 2019-03-01T14:40:24 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 17:46:13 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated