CVE-2018-5169

Medium

Description

If manipulated hyperlinked text with "chrome:" URL contained in it is dragged and dropped on the "home" icon, the home page can be reset to include a normally-unlinkable chrome page as one of the home page tabs. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedJun 11, 2018
First seenJun 11, 2018

How to fix

Update
  • mozilla firefox60.0 or later
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Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv < 60.060.0
canonical ubuntu_linux14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04—

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