CVE-2018-5151

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 59. 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 < 60.

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	>= unspecified, < 60

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1445234%2C1449530%2C1437455%2C1447989%2C1438827%2C1436983%2C1435036%2C1440465%2C1439723%2C1448771%2C1453653%2C1454359%2C1432323%2C1454126%2C1436759%2C1439655%2C1448612%2C1449358%2C1367727%2C1452417Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1445234%2C1449530%2C1437455%2C1447989%2C1438827%2C1436983%2C1435036%2C1440465%2C1439723%2C1448771%2C1453653%2C1454359%2C1432323%2C1454126%2C1436759%2C1439655%2C1448612%2C1449358%2C1367727%2C1452417Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/Third Party Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

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

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