CVE-2018-5090
Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 57. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.27% probability · 83th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
EPSS 2.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1413857%2C1412653%2C1418966%2C1427126%2C1412942%2C1401459%2C1364399%2C1382851%2C1423770%2C1401420%2C1281965%2C1389561%2C1409179%2C1416879%2C1421786%2C1426449%2C1416799%2C1400912%2C1415158%2C1415748%2C1415788%2C1371891%2C1415770%2C1416519%2C1413143%2C1418841%2C1384544%2C1410140%2C1411631%2C1412313%2C1412641%2C1412645%2C1412646%2C1412648%2C1261175Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1413857%2C1412653%2C1418966%2C1427126%2C1412942%2C1401459%2C1364399%2C1382851%2C1423770%2C1401420%2C1281965%2C1389561%2C1409179%2C1416879%2C1421786%2C1426449%2C1416799%2C1400912%2C1415158%2C1415748%2C1415788%2C1371891%2C1415770%2C1416519%2C1413143%2C1418841%2C1384544%2C1410140%2C1411631%2C1412313%2C1412641%2C1412645%2C1412646%2C1412648%2C1261175Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.