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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-5172): Firefox regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-5172): Firefox regression

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/09/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/22/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with the context of either page but does not allow for privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-firefox

References

  • USN-3645-1
  • USN-3645-2
  • CVE-2018-5172

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