CVE-2018-5124 (GCVE-0-2018-5124)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-04-26 16:06
Modified
2024-08-05 05:26
Severity ?
CWE
  • ailure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
Summary
Unsanitized output in the browser UI leaves HTML tags in place and can result in arbitrary code execution in Firefox before version 58.0.1.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Firefox Version: All versions prior to Firefox 58.0.1
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