VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-5151
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 2.72%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.72%). 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 59. 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 < 60.
- 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
- 2.72% probability · 85th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1445234%2C1449530%2C1437455%2C1447989%2C1438827%2C1436983%2C1435036%2C1440465%2C1439723%2C1448771%2C1453653%2C1454359%2C1432323%2C1454126%2C1436759%2C1439655%2C1448612%2C1449358%2C1367727%2C1452417Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1445234%2C1449530%2C1437455%2C1447989%2C1438827%2C1436983%2C1435036%2C1440465%2C1439723%2C1448771%2C1453653%2C1454359%2C1432323%2C1454126%2C1436759%2C1439655%2C1448612%2C1449358%2C1367727%2C1452417Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.