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CVE-2018-5183
Mozilla developers backported selected changes in the Skia library. These changes correct memory corruption issues including invalid…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Mozilla developers backported selected changes in the Skia library. These changes correct memory corruption issues including invalid buffer reads and writes during graphic operations. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Thunderbird < 52.8, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.
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)
- 3.2% · top 12% 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 – < 52.8
- affected unspecified – < 52.8
- affected unspecified – < 52.8
References
16
- RHSA-2018:1415 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201810-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1414 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1454692 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201811-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-13/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3660-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 1040898 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-4199 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180525 [SECURITY] [DLA 1382-1] thunderbird security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20180511 [SECURITY] [DLA 1376-1] firefox-esr security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:1725 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 104138 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-4209 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12/ (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-2018-16968 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-5183)Record last updated .