CVE-2018-5111

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2018-5111 · Published 11/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-5111 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 75.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`≤ 57.0.4`	No fix yet

Description

When the text of a specially formatted URL is dragged to the addressbar from page content, the displayed URL can be spoofed to show a different site than the one loaded. This allows for phishing attacks where a malicious page can spoof the identify of another site. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/102786 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1040270 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1 · Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

≤ 57.0.4

No fix yet

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