CVE-2018-5119 Information disclosure in Firefox

What is CVE-2018-5119?

CVE-2018-5119 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 11 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The reader view will display cross-origin content when CORS headers are set to prohibit the loading of cross-origin content by a site. This could allow access to content that should be restricted in reader view. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5119?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5119?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-5119 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5119 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-v88m-f4v8-vqc4, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5119.