PT-2018-3169 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+5

Rob Wu · Published 2018-10-23 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2018-12397

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox ESR versions prior to 60.3 Firefox versions prior to 63

Description A WebExtension can request access to local files without displaying a warning prompt to the user, stating that the extension will "Access your data for all websites". This allows extensions to run content scripts in local pages without permission warnings when a local file is opened. The issue is related to the lack of protection for service data in the WebExtensions system.

Recommendations For Firefox ESR versions prior to 60.3, update to version 60.3 or later. For Firefox versions prior to 63, update to version 63 or later.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2550

ALT-PU-2018-2645

ALT-PU-2019-2324

ALT-PU-2019-2486

BDU:2019-04300

CESA-2018_3005

CESA-2018_3006

CVE-2018-12397

DLA-1571-1

DSA-4324-1

MGASA-2018-0420

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3435-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2018:3005

RHSA-2018:3006

RHSA-2018_3005

RHSA-2018_3006

SUSE-SU-2018:3656-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3749-1

SUSE-SU-2018:3749-2

SUSE-SU-2018:3749-3

USN-3801-1

USN-3801-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 1921

• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/#CVE-2018-12397 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12392 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12390 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3749-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se81-bulletin-20230315SE81 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12397 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44892734 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12397 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12399 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0420.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12397 · Vendor Advisory