CVE-2018-5118

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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-200

Description

The screenshot images displayed in the Activity Stream page displayed when a new tab is opened is created from the meta tags of websites. An issue was discovered where the page could attempt to create these images through "file:" URLs from the local file system. This loading is blocked by the sandbox but could expose local data if combined with another attack that escapes sandbox protections. 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=1420049
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=1420049
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/

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