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CVE-2018-5145
Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox ESR 52.6. These bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough…
Critical9.8EPSS 3.0%
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- mozilla
Description
Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox ESR 52.6. These bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.7 and Thunderbird < 52.7.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 52.7
- CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Mozilla · Firefox ESR
- affected unspecified – < 52.7
Mozilla · Thunderbird
- affected unspecified – < 52.7
References (15)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1261175%2C1348955 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4139 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-201811-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0527 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-3545-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180315 [SECURITY] [DLA 1308-1] firefox-esr security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-09/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-07/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0526 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180329 [SECURITY] [DLA 1327-1] thunderbird security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4155 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0648 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:0647 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1040514 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 103384 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .