Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-5110 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
NONE Summary
If cursor visibility is toggled by script using from 'none' to an image and back through script, the cursor will be rendered temporarily invisible within Firefox. Note: This vulnerability only affects OS X. Other operating systems are not affected. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Nessus
NASL family Windows NASL id MOZILLA_FIREFOX_58_0.NASL description The version of Mozilla Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 58. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, some of which allow code execution and potentially exploitable crashes. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106303 published 2018-01-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106303 title Mozilla Firefox < 58 Multiple Vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(106303); script_version("1.6"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/11/08"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2018-5089", "CVE-2018-5090", "CVE-2018-5091", "CVE-2018-5092", "CVE-2018-5093", "CVE-2018-5094", "CVE-2018-5095", "CVE-2018-5097", "CVE-2018-5098", "CVE-2018-5099", "CVE-2018-5100", "CVE-2018-5101", "CVE-2018-5102", "CVE-2018-5103", "CVE-2018-5104", "CVE-2018-5105", "CVE-2018-5106", "CVE-2018-5107", "CVE-2018-5108", "CVE-2018-5109", "CVE-2018-5110", "CVE-2018-5111", "CVE-2018-5112", "CVE-2018-5113", "CVE-2018-5114", "CVE-2018-5115", "CVE-2018-5116", "CVE-2018-5117", "CVE-2018-5118", "CVE-2018-5119", "CVE-2018-5121", "CVE-2018-5122" ); script_bugtraq_id(102783); script_xref(name:"MFSA", value:"2018-02"); script_name(english:"Mozilla Firefox < 58 Multiple Vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks the version of Firefox."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "The version of Mozilla Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 58. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, some of which allow code execution and potentially exploitable crashes."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 58 or later."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-5090"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/01/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/01/23"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/01/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Windows"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("mozilla_org_installed.nasl"); script_require_keys("Mozilla/Firefox/Version"); exit(0); } include("mozilla_version.inc"); port = get_kb_item("SMB/transport"); if (!port) port = 445; installs = get_kb_list("SMB/Mozilla/Firefox/*"); if (isnull(installs)) audit(AUDIT_NOT_INST, "Firefox"); mozilla_check_version(installs:installs, product:'firefox', fix:'58', severity:SECURITY_HOLE);
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NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_A891C5B43D7A4DE99C71EEF3FD698C77.NASL description Mozilla Foundation reports : CVE-2018-5091: Use-after-free with DTMF timers CVE-2018-5092: Use-after-free in Web Workers CVE-2018-5093: Buffer overflow in WebAssembly during Memory/Table resizing CVE-2018-5094: Buffer overflow in WebAssembly with garbage collection on uninitialized memory CVE-2018-5095: Integer overflow in Skia library during edge builder allocation CVE-2018-5097: Use-after-free when source document is manipulated during XSLT CVE-2018-5098: Use-after-free while manipulating form input elements CVE-2018-5099: Use-after-free with widget listener CVE-2018-5100: Use-after-free when IsPotentiallyScrollable arguments are freed from memory CVE-2018-5101: Use-after-free with floating first-letter style elements CVE-2018-5102: Use-after-free in HTML media elements CVE-2018-5103: Use-after-free during mouse event handling CVE-2018-5104: Use-after-free during font face manipulation CVE-2018-5105: WebExtensions can save and execute files on local file system without user prompts CVE-2018-5106: Developer Tools can expose style editor information cross-origin through service worker CVE-2018-5107: Printing process will follow symlinks for local file access CVE-2018-5108: Manually entered blob URL can be accessed by subsequent private browsing tabs CVE-2018-5109: Audio capture prompts and starts with incorrect origin attribution CVE-2018-5110: Cursor can be made invisible on OS X CVE-2018-5111: URL spoofing in addressbar through drag and drop CVE-2018-5112: Extension development tools panel can open a non-relative URL in the panel CVE-2018-5113: WebExtensions can load non-HTTPS pages with browser.identity.launchWebAuthFlow CVE-2018-5114: The old value of a cookie changed to HttpOnly remains accessible to scripts CVE-2018-5115: Background network requests can open HTTP authentication in unrelated foreground tabs CVE-2018-5116: WebExtension ActiveTab permission allows cross-origin frame content access CVE-2018-5117: URL spoofing with right-to-left text aligned left-to-right CVE-2018-5118: Activity Stream images can attempt to load local content through file : CVE-2018-5119: Reader view will load cross-origin content in violation of CORS headers CVE-2018-5121: OS X Tibetan characters render incompletely in the addressbar CVE-2018-5122: Potential integer overflow in DoCrypt CVE-2018-5090: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 58 CVE-2018-5089: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 58 and Firefox ESR 52.6 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 106288 published 2018-01-24 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/106288 title FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (a891c5b4-3d7a-4de9-9c71-eef3fd698c77) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2019 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. 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