CVE-2018-12365: A compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• canonical ubuntu linux14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux17.10
• canonical ubuntu linux18.04
• debian debian linux8.0
• debian debian linux9.0
• mozilla firefoxbefore 61.0
• mozilla firefox53.0 and later · before 60.1.0
• mozilla firefox esrbefore 52.9
• mozilla thunderbird52.9.1 and later · before 60.0
• mozilla thunderbirdbefore 52.9
• redhat enterprise linux desktop6.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server eus7.5
• redhat enterprise linux server eus7.6
• redhat enterprise linux server tus7.6
• redhat enterprise linux workstation6.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (mozilla). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Mozilla Firefox

  • unspecified and later · before 61affected

• Mozilla Firefox ESR

  • unspecified and later · before 60.1affected
  • unspecified and later · before 52.9affected

• Mozilla Thunderbird

  • unspecified and later · before 60affected
  • unspecified and later · before 52.9affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2017-5375JIT code allocation can allow for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks.
  49Plan
• CVE-2018-14649It was found that ceph-isci-cli package as shipped by Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 and 3 is using python-werkzeug in debug shell mode.
  43Plan
• CVE-2016-7050SerializableProvider in RESTEasy in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
  41Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2018-12363Oct 18, 2018 · A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when script uses mutation events to move DOM nodes between documents, resulting in the old document
  36Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2018-12364Oct 18, 2018 · NPAPI plugins, such as Adobe Flash, can send non-simple cross-origin requests, bypassing CORS by making a same-origin POST that does a 307 r
  36Monitor
• Later →CVE-2018-12366Oct 18, 2018 · An invalid grid size during QCMS (color profile) transformations can result in the out-of-bounds read interpreted as a float value.
  27Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.