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CVE-2018-18499 (GCVE-0-2018-18499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-28 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:08
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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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Same-origin policy violation using meta refresh and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 62 (custom)
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Mozilla Firefox ESR Affected: unspecified , < 60.2 (custom)
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Mozilla Thunderbird Affected: unspecified , < 60.2.1 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-02-28 00:00
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