Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-12395  

A security issue has been found in Firefox versions prior to 63.0, where by rewriting the Host request headers using the webRequest API, a WebExtension can bypass domain restrictions through domain fronting. This would allow access to domains that share a host that are otherwise restricted.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox versions prior to 63.0, where by rewriting the Host request headers using the webRequest API, a WebExtension can bypass domain restrictions through domain fronting. This would allow access to domains that share a host that are otherwise restricted.

AVG-787 firefox 62.0.3-2 63.0-1 Critical Fixed

24 Oct 2018 ASA-201810-14 AVG-787 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/#CVE-2018-12395
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1467523