Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-18495  

A security issue has been found in Firefox < 64.0, where WebExtension content scripts can be loaded into about: pages in some circumstances, in violation of the permissions granted to extensions. This could allow an extension to interfere with the loading and usage of these pages and use capabilities that were intended to be restricted from extensions.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Access restriction bypass

Description

A security issue has been found in Firefox < 64.0, where WebExtension content scripts can be loaded into about: pages in some circumstances, in violation of the permissions granted to extensions. This could allow an extension to interfere with the loading and usage of these pages and use capabilities that were intended to be restricted from extensions.

AVG-833 firefox 63.0.3-1 64.0-1 Critical Fixed

12 Dec 2018 ASA-201812-9 AVG-833 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-29/#CVE-2018-18495
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427585