VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-5186
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 2.20%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60. 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 < 61.
- 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
- 2.20% probability · 82th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- security@mozilla.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104557Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1464872%2C1463329%2C1419373%2C1412882%2C1413033%2C1444673%2C1454448%2C1453505%2C1438671Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104557Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1464872%2C1463329%2C1419373%2C1412882%2C1413033%2C1444673%2C1454448%2C1453505%2C1438671Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.