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ubuntu-cve-2018-18499

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2019-02-28 18:29

Modified

2026-04-22 07:38

Summary

Details

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18499	REPORT
	https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories…	REPORT
	https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories…	REPORT
	https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories…	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468523	REPORT
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…	REPORT
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…	REPORT
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18499	REPORT

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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

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Same-origin policy violation using meta refresh and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

Assigner

mozilla mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468523	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Mozilla	Firefox	Affected: unspecified , < 62 (custom)
Mozilla	Firefox ESR	Affected: unspecified , < 60.2 (custom)
Mozilla	Thunderbird	Affected: unspecified , < 60.2.1 (custom)

Date Public

2019-02-28 00:00

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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