CVE-2018-5172
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
9.5
Description
The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with the context of either page but does not allow for privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5172
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201805-10
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 60.0-1 | |
| debian | sid | fixed | 60.0-1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.