CVE-2018-12385

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

A potentially exploitable crash in TransportSecurityInfo used for SSL can be triggered by data stored in the local cache in the user profile directory. This issue is only exploitable in combination with another vulnerability allowing an attacker to write data into the local cache or from locally installed malware. This issue also triggers a non-exploitable startup crash for users switching between the Nightly and Release versions of Firefox if the same profile is used. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.2.1, Firefox ESR < 60.2.1, and Firefox < 62.0.2.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Fixed 60.2.1-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 60.2.1esr-1
sid Fixed 62.0.2-1
forky Fixed 60.2.1esr-1
bullseye Fixed 60.2.1esr-1
bookworm Fixed 60.2.1esr-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.