Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5172  

The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer in Firefox before 60.0 can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with the context of either page but does not allow for privilege escalation.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer in Firefox before 60.0 can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with the context of either page but does not allow for privilege escalation.

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-2018-5172
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436482