CVE-2018-5156 is a critical vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird versions prior to 61 and 60 respectively, and Firefox ESR versions prior to 60.1 and 52.9. It arises from a type confusion error during media stream capture when the source type changes mid-capture, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, allowing for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code available, it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, indicating a lack of active exploitation or widespread attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.