CVE-2018-5186

critical

Description

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60. 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 < 61.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104557

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1464872%2C1463329%2C1419373%2C1412882%2C1413033%2C1444673%2C1454448%2C1453505%2C1438671

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-10-18

Updated: 2018-12-06

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: CRITICAL