6.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-18495

Published: 28/02/2019 Updated: 24/08/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

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. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64.

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Vendor Advisories

Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2018-29 Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 64 Announced December 11, 2018 Impact critical Products Firefox Fixed in Firefox 64 ...
A security issue has been found in Firefox &lt; 640, 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 exte ...

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