What is CVE-2018-18502?

CVE-2018-18502 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-02-05.

How severe is CVE-2018-18502?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2018-18502

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 65.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-02-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (81.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 16.04, 18.04

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-01/ (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/106773 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
usn.ubuntu.com/3874-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18502?: CVE-2018-18502 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-02-05.
How severe is CVE-2018-18502?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.