CVE-2018-5172 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2018-5172 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.69% · 71.8th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.69%

71.8th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	firefox	41.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 24.0+build1-0ubuntu1, 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	firefox	0, 56.0+build6-0ubuntu1, 57.0.1+build2-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	firefox	44.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1, 45.0+build2-0ubuntu1, 45.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1

Timeline

May 11, 2018 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
Jun 22, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5172 third-party-advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/#CVE-2018-5172 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3645-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5172 third-party-advisory

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