CVE-2018-18496 Other in Firefox

What is CVE-2018-18496?

CVE-2018-18496 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 28 Feb 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

When the RSS Feed preview about:feeds page is framed within another page, it can be used in concert with scripted content for a clickjacking attack that confuses users into downloading and executing an executable file from a temporary directory. *Note: This issue only affects Windows operating systems. Other operating systems are not affected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64.

Weakness: CWE-1021

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-18496?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2018-18496?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-18496 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-18496 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• 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-r3rp-58g5-pvr5.