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CVE-2018-5148
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a reference counted one. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.7.3 and Firefox < 59.0.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mozilla
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
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)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 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.
Affected products
- affected unspecified – < 52.7.3
- affected unspecified – < 59.0.2
References
9
- RHSA-2018:1098 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440717 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3609-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-4153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-10/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1040574 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180327 [SECURITY] [DLA 1321-1] firefox-esr security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 103506 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1099 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-16934 (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)
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