CVE-2018-12381 Open redirect in Firefox

What is CVE-2018-12381?

CVE-2018-12381 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 18 Oct 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Manually dragging and dropping an Outlook email message into the browser will trigger a page navigation when the message's mail columns are incorrectly interpreted as a URL. *Note: this issue only affects Windows operating systems with Outlook installed. Other operating systems are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.2 and Firefox < 62.

Weakness: CWE-610

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12381?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2018-12381?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-12381 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12381 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pqvw-c6xw-gpp5.