A security issue has been found in Firefox < 64.0, where limitations on the URIs allowed to WebExtensions by the browser.windows.create API can be bypassed when a pipe in the URL field is used within the extension to load multiple pages as a single argument. This could allow a malicious WebExtension to opened privileged about: or file: locations.
A security issue has been found in Firefox < 64.0, where limitations on the URIs allowed to WebExtensions by the browser.windows.create API can be bypassed when a pipe in the URL field is used within the extension to load multiple pages as a single argument. This could allow a malicious WebExtension to opened privileged about: or file: locations.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-29/#CVE-2018-18497 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488180
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