CVE-2018-5181

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

If a URL using the "file:" protocol is dragged and dropped onto an open tab that is running in a different child process the tab will open a local file corresponding to the dropped URL, contrary to policy. One way to make the target tab open more reliably in a separate process is to open it with the "noopener" keyword. 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-2018-5181

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.