CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-5111
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
When the text of a specially formatted URL is dragged to the addressbar from page content, the displayed URL can be spoofed to show a different site than the one loaded. This allows for phishing attacks where a malicious page can spoof the identify of another site. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (<= 57.0.4)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 17.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321619 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/ Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321619 Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/ Vendor Advisory