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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-18494: Security patch for thunderbird (ALAS-2019-1168)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-18494: Security patch for thunderbird (ALAS-2019-1168)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/28/2019
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using the Javascript location property 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 Thunderbird < 60.4, Firefox ESR < 60.4, and Firefox < 64.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-thunderbird
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo

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