CVE-2018-18499
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-02-28 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:08
Severity ?
Summary
A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries(). This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 62, Firefox ESR < 60.2, and Thunderbird < 60.2.1.
References
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468523Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-20/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-21/Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-25/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
MozillaFirefox ESR
MozillaThunderbird
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