Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5173  

The filename appearing in the Downloads panel in Firefox before 60.0 improperly renders some Unicode characters, allowing for the file name to be spoofed. This can be used to obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Content spoofing

Description

The filename appearing in the Downloads panel in Firefox before 60.0 improperly renders some Unicode characters, allowing for the file name to be spoofed. This can be used to obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel.

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-2018-5173
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1438025