CVE-2018-5167
The web console and JavaScript debugger do not sanitize all output that can be hyperlinked. Both will display "chrome:" links as active,…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 27% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The web console and JavaScript debugger do not sanitize all output that can be hyperlinked. Both will display "chrome:" links as active, clickable hyperlinks in their output. Web sites should not be able to directly link to internal chrome pages. Additionally, the JavaScript debugger will display "javascript:" links, which users could be tricked into clicking by malicious sites. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.
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 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
References
5
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1040896 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- USN-3645-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 104139 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1447969 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2018-16952 (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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