CVE-2018-12406

high

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 63. 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 < 64.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106167

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1456947%2C1475669%2C1504816%2C1502886%2C1500064%2C1500310%2C1500696%2C1499198%2C1434490%2C1481745%2C1458129

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3844-1/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-29/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2019-02-28

Updated: 2019-03-01

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: HIGH