UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5172

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5172

    Published: 11 May 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-5172
    Aliases:
    USN-3645-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5172, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/#CVE-2018-5172, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3645-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5172

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

    Affected versions

    24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High