CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-12400
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-02-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
In private browsing mode on Firefox for Android, favicons are cached in the cache/icons folder as they are in non-private mode. This allows information leakage of sites visited during private browsing sessions. *Note: this issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop versions of Firefox are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 63.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105721 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041944 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448305 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105721 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041944 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448305 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/ Vendor Advisory