Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5166  

WebExtensions in Firefox before 60.0 can use request redirection and a filterReponseData filter to bypass host permission settings to redirect network traffic and access content from a host for which they do not have explicit user permission.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

WebExtensions in Firefox before 60.0 can use request redirection and a filterReponseData filter to bypass host permission settings to redirect network traffic and access content from a host for which they do not have explicit user permission.

AVG-693 firefox 59.0.2-3 60.0-1 Critical Fixed

13 May 2018 ASA-201805-10 AVG-693 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/#CVE-2018-5166
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1437325