CVE - CVE-2018-5172

CVE-ID
CVE-2018-5172	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The Live Bookmarks page and the PDF viewer can run injected script content if a user pastes script from the clipboard into them while viewing RSS feeds or PDF files. This could allow a malicious site to socially engineer a user to copy and paste malicious script content that could then run with the context of either page but does not allow for privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.
References
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BID:104139 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436482 CONFIRM:https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/ SECTRACK:1040896 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896 UBUNTU:USN-3645-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/
Assigning CNA
Mozilla Corporation
Date Record Created
20180103	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20180103)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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