CVE-2018-5111

Description

When the text of a specially formatted URL is dragged to the addressbar from page content, the displayed URL can be spoofed to show a different site than the one loaded. This allows for phishing attacks where a malicious page can spoof the identify of another site. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

References

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321619

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3