CVE-2018-5090

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 57. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
MozillaFirefox>= unspecified, < 58

References

Timeline

Published
Jun 11, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2018-5090: Critical severity, CVSS 9.8 | Vulnix