github - ghsa-9467-r3c9-7387

ghsa-9467-r3c9-7387

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:19

Modified

2022-05-13 01:19

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

Limitations on the URIs allowed to WebExtensions by the browser.windows.create API can be bypassed when a pipe in the URL field is used within the extension to load multiple pages as a single argument. This could allow a malicious WebExtension to open privileged about: or file: locations. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64.

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CVE-2018-18497 (GCVE-0-2018-18497)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2019-02-28 18:00

Modified

2024-08-05 11:08

Severity ?

CWE

WebExtensions can load arbitrary URLs through pipe separators

Summary

Limitations on the URIs allowed to WebExtensions by the browser.windows.create API can be bypassed when a pipe in the URL field is used within the extension to load multiple pages as a single argument. This could allow a malicious WebExtension to open privileged about: or file: locations. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64.

References

URL

Tags

	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488180	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-29/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3844-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106167	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Mozilla	Firefox	Version: unspecified < 64

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