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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-5126 json

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 58.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-16912

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 58. 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 < 59.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 59
  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 59.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 59.0+build5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5126

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

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Exploit prediction

1.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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