CVE-2018-5172

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5172

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201805-10

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed60.0-1
debian debiansidfixed60.0-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.