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CVE-2018-12370 (GCVE-0-2018-12370)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-18 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 08:30
VLAI
Summary
In Reader View SameSite cookie protections are not checked on exiting. This allows for a payload to be triggered when Reader View is exited if loaded by a malicious site while Reader mode is active, bypassing CSRF protections. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 61.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • SameSite cookie protections bypassed when exiting Reader View
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1456652 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Mozilla Firefox Affected: unspecified , < 61 (custom)
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Date Public
2018-06-26 00:00
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.