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MFSA2018-20 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 62 (CVE-2018-18499)

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MFSA2018-20 Firefox: Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 62 (CVE-2018-18499)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/12/2018
Modified
03/04/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-62_0

References

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