CVE-2018-5169

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Description

The CVE Program describes this issue as:

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.

Additional information

  • Bugzilla 1576270: Mozilla: Dragging and dropping link text onto home button can set home page to include chrome pages
  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization
  • FAQ: Frequently asked questions about CVE-2018-5169

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

Important note

CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).

The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
Red HatNVD

CVSS v3 Base Score

6.1

6.5

Attack Vector

Network

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Low

Privileges Required

None

None

User Interaction

Required

Required

Scope

Changed

Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact

Low

None

Integrity Impact

Low

High

Availability Impact

None

None

CVSS v3 Vector

Red Hat: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

NVD: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abdulrahman Alqabandi as the original reporter.

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