CVE-2018-12401 Denial of service in Firefox

What is CVE-2018-12401?

CVE-2018-12401 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 28 Feb 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Some special resource URIs will cause a non-exploitable crash if loaded with optional parameters following a '?' in the parsed string. This could lead to denial of service (DOS) attacks. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12401?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2018-12401?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-12401 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12401 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7qcf-mj94-5gw6, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12401.