Vulnerability CVE-2018-18510

Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2018-18510 (CCN-161828)

Assigned:

2018-12-11

Published:

2018-12-11

Updated:

2020-08-24

Summary:

The about:crashcontent and about:crashparent pages can be triggered by web content. These pages are used to crash the loaded page or the browser for test purposes. This issue allows for a non-persistent denial of service (DOS) attack by a malicious site which links to these pages. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64.

CVSS v3 Severity:

6.5 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
5.7 Medium (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): High

4.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
3.8 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

4.3 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

4.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial

Vulnerability Type:

CWE-noinfo

Vulnerability Consequences:

Denial of Service

References:

Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2018-18510

Source: MISC
Type: Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507702

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
mozilla-cve201818510-dos(161828)

Source: CCN
Type: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2018-29
Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 64

Source: MISC
Type: Vendor Advisory
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-29/

Vulnerable Configuration:

Configuration 1:

cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version < 64.0)

Configuration CCN 1:

cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox:63.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Denotes that component is vulnerable

Oval Definitions

Definition ID	Class	Title	Last Modified
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201818510000	V	CVE-2018-18510 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.	2019-04-26
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:2018185100000000	V	CVE-2018-18510 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.	2019-04-26
oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:201818510000	V	CVE-2018-18510 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.	2019-04-26
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2018185100000000	V	CVE-2018-18510 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2019-04-26
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201818510000	V	CVE-2018-18510 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.	2019-04-26
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2018185100000000	V	CVE-2018-18510 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.	2019-04-26

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