CVE-2018-5173 Other in Firefox

What is CVE-2018-5173?

CVE-2018-5173 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 filename appearing in the "Downloads" panel improperly renders some Unicode characters, allowing for the file name to be spoofed. This can be used to obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel. Note: the dialog to open the file will show the full, correct filename and whether it is executable or not. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5173?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5173?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-5173 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5173 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-hg6x-mmgv-6qvx, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5173.