CVE-2018-12365

moderate-risk
Published 2018-10-18

A compromised IPC child process can escape the content sandbox and list the names of arbitrary files on the file system without user consent or interaction. This could result in exposure of private local files. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Thunderbird < 52.9, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.

Do I need to act?

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2.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
6
CVSS 6.5/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (19)

Affected Vendors

Debian Redhat Mozilla Canonical

References (40)

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104560
Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2112
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2113
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2251
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2252
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459206
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00014.html
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00013.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3714-1/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4235
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4244
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-17/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-18/
Vendor Advisory https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/
and 20 more references
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 5/34 · Minimal
Exposure 19/34 · Moderate