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Red Hat: CVE-2018-18499: Critical: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-18499: Critical: firefox security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/28/2019
Created
07/07/2020
Added
07/06/2020
Modified
03/03/2021

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-firefox
  • redhat-upgrade-firefox-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2018-18499

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