CVE-2018-18512 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 60.5. This flaw occurs when a sound notification is played, as the memory holding the sound data is prematurely freed while the sound is still playing asynchronously, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, allowing for high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 65.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 60.5CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.