5.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2018-12386

Published: 18/10/2018 Updated: 06/12/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.8 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.1 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 516
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

A vulnerability in register allocation in JavaScript can lead to type confusion, allowing for an arbitrary read and write. This leads to remote code execution inside the sandboxed content process when triggered. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.2.2 and Firefox < 62.0.3.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Critical: firefox security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, wh ...
Synopsis Critical: firefox security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, wh ...
Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...
Two security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code inside the sandboxed content process For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 6022esr-1~deb9u1 We recommend that you upgrade your firefox-esr packages For the detailed ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2018-24 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 6203 and Firefox ESR 6022 Announced October 2, 2018 Impact critical Products Firefox, Firefox ESR Fixed in Fire ...
A vulnerability in register allocation in JavaScript can lead to type confusion, allowing for an arbitrary read and write This leads to remote code execution inside the sandboxed content process when triggered This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR &lt; 6022 and Firefox &lt; 6203 ...
A vulnerability has been found in Firefox before 6203 in register allocation in JavaScript can lead to type confusion, allowing for an arbitrary read and write This leads to remote code execution inside the sandboxed content process when triggered ...

Github Repositories

CVE-2018-12386 - Firefox Sandboxed RCE Exploit for Linux (Firefox <v62.0.3)

Firefox Sandboxed RCE Exploit (CVE-2018-12386) Here is a simple exploit for the vulnerability CVE-2018-12386 found by Niklas Baumstark, Samuel Groß and Bruno Keith This is mostly a PoC I did for fun, there is no sandbox bypass and it will only work on a given Linux setup where the offsets used by the exploit are already known (they can be changed in exploit/offsetsjs)