CVE-2018-12389

Published Feb 28, 2019

Last updated 5 months ago

Overview

Description
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox ESR 60.2. 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 ESR < 60.3 and Thunderbird < 60.3.
Source
security@mozilla.org
NVD status
Modified
Products
firefox, thunderbird, debian_linux, ubuntu_linux, enterprise_linux_desktop, enterprise_linux_server, enterprise_linux_server_aus, enterprise_linux_server_eus, enterprise_linux_server_tus, enterprise_linux_workstation

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
8.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
2.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-119

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.