Information disclosure in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2018-12365
A compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. This could result in exposure of private local files. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.032 (87.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox Esr — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox Esr
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions unspecified
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
- Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 6.0, 7.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 6.0, 7.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus — versions 7.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus — versions 7.5, 7.6
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/ (Vendor Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2112 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4235 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-18/ (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Vendor Advisory, Permissions Required, Issue Tracking)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2113 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/ (Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4244 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-12365?
- CVE-2018-12365 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-10-18.
- How severe is CVE-2018-12365?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.