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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-18501 json

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4.

published 2019-02-05 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-10226

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64 and Firefox ESR 60.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60.5, Firefox ESR < 60.5, and Firefox < 65.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 60.5
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 60.5
  • Mozilla Firefox 65
  • firefox-esr Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 60.5.0esr-1
  • thunderbird Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:60.5.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-18501

  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • firefox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1:60.5.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18501

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  • thunderbird RHEL 7 60.5.0-1.el7_6
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 60.5.0-1.el6_10
  • firefox RHEL 6 60.5.0-2.el6
  • firefox RHEL 7 60.5.0-2.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:0270RHSA-2019:0269RHSA-2019:0218RHSA-2019:0219

  • MozillaFirefox SLES 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +13 more 60.5.0esr-109.58.3
  • mozilla-nss SLES 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +13 more 3.41.1-58.25.1
  • MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE SLES 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP2-BCL +11 more 60-32.5.1
  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 60.5.0-3.20.2
  • MozillaFirefox SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 60.5.0-3.24.2
  • mozilla-nss SLE Module for Basesystem 15 3.41.1-3.13.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:0336-2SUSE-SU-2019:0338-1SUSE-SU-2019:0336-1SUSE-SU-2019:0273-1

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 91.1.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Leap 15.0 60.8.0-lp150.3.62.1
  • mozilla-nss openSUSE Leap 15.0 3.41.1-lp150.2.20.1
  • MozillaThunderbird Package Hub 12 60.5.1-79.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1758-1openSUSE-SU-2019:0249-1

  • firefox-esr Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +12 more 60.5.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-18501

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  • firefox Arch Linux 65.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-862

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-18501 updated cvss 9.8

Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 65 and Firefox ESR 60.5

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) firefox 60.5.0-2.el7, thunderbird 60.5.0-1.el7_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) firefox 60.5.0-2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0219
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 60.5.0-2.el6, thunderbird 60.5.0-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) firefox 60.5.0-2.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0218
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) firefox 60.5.0-2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0219
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) thunderbird 60.5.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0270
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 60.5.0-2.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 60.5.0-2.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0218
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) firefox 60.5.0-2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0219
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) firefox 60.5.0-2.el6, thunderbird 60.5.0-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0218
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) firefox 60.5.0-2.el7, thunderbird 60.5.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0219
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 60.5.0-2.el6, thunderbird 60.5.0-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0218
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) firefox 60.5.0-2.el7, thunderbird 60.5.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0219
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) firefox 60.5.0-2.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0218
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) firefox 60.5.0-2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0219
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

3.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR
  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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