CVE-2018-18494 describes a same-origin policy violation in Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird versions prior to 64, 60.4, and 60.4 respectively. This vulnerability allows an attacker to steal cross-origin URL entries by manipulating the Javascript location property to trigger a redirection, which can then be captured using performance.getEntries(). Rated with a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and has a high impact on confidentiality (C:H), but no impact on integrity or availability. There is no public exploit code available, it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 60.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 64.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 60.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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