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Origin Validation Error

CVE-2018-18499

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries(). This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 62, Firefox ESR < 60.2, and Thunderbird < 60.2.1.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-346 - Origin Validation Error

The software does not properly verify that the source of data or communication is valid.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published