CVE-2018-5169

medium

Description

If manipulated hyperlinked text with "chrome:" URL contained in it is dragged and dropped on the "home" icon, the home page can be reset to include a normally-unlinkable chrome page as one of the home page tabs. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1319157

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-11

Updated: 2018-08-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium