Description
Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 62. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1472639%2C1485698%2C1301547%2C1471427%2C1379411%2C1482122%2C1486314%2C1487167
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105721
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3801-1/
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041944
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0051
EPSS Percentile
66.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.10
mozilla/firefox
< 63.0
Published
Feb 28, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026