CVE-2018-5111

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: 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 products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
Mozilla Firefox: through 57.0.4

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321619
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321619
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/

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