VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-5126
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.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.75%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.75%). 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 58. 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 < 59.
- 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
- 1.75% probability · 77th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103386Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040514Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1433671%2C1414768%2C1416523%2C1425691%2C1441006%2C1429768%2C1426002%2C1297740%2C1435566%2C1432855%2C1442318%2C1421963%2C1422631%2C1426603%2C1404297%2C1425257%2C1373934%2C1423173%2C1416940Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3596-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-06/Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103386Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040514Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1433671%2C1414768%2C1416523%2C1425691%2C1441006%2C1429768%2C1426002%2C1297740%2C1435566%2C1432855%2C1442318%2C1421963%2C1422631%2C1426603%2C1404297%2C1425257%2C1373934%2C1423173%2C1416940Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3596-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-06/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.