CVE-2018-12401

high

Description

Some special resource URIs will cause a non-exploitable crash if loaded with optional parameters following a '?' in the parsed string. This could lead to denial of service (DOS) attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105721

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041944

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422456

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3801-1/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-02-28

Updated: 2019-03-01

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: HIGH