PT-2018-14489 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox Esr+5

James Lee + 1 · Published 2018-09-05 · Updated 2019-08-15 · CVE-2018-18499

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 62 Firefox ESR versions prior to 60.2 Thunderbird versions prior to 60.2.1

Description A same-origin policy violation exists, allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries. This occurs when a page uses a meta http-equiv="refresh" to cause a redirection to another site, exploiting the performance.getEntries() function. This could enable data theft.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 62, update to version 62 or later to resolve the issue. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 60.2, update to version 60.2 or later to resolve the issue. For Thunderbird versions prior to 60.2.1, update to version 60.2.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Origin Validation Error

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-346

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2423

ALT-PU-2018-2669

ALT-PU-2019-2324

ALT-PU-2019-2486

CESA-2018_2692

CESA-2018_2693

CESA-2018_3403

CVE-2018-18499

DLA-1571-1

DLA-1575-1

DSA-4287-1

DSA-4327-1

RHSA-2018:2692

RHSA-2018:2693

RHSA-2018:3403

RHSA-2018:3458

RHSA-2018_2692

RHSA-2018_2693

RHSA-2018_3403

RHSA-2018_3458

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Thunderbird

References · 18

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-21/#CVE-2018-18499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-21 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-18499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4327-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-18499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1575-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1571-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25/#CVE-2018-18499 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18499 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4287-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18499 · Security Note