#VU12559 Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5173 

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#VU12559 Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2018-5173

Published: May 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12559
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5173
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mozilla Firefox
Software vendor:
Mozilla

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the filename appearing in the Downloads panel improperly renders some Unicode characters. A remote attacker can spoof the filename and obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel.


Remediation

Update to version 60.0.

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