Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 57.

published 2018-06-11 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-16876

cvss: 9.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.3%; EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits: 0; none known

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 57. 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 Firefox < 58.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 2

Mozilla Firefox 58

ubuntu opensuse

firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 58.0+build6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
firefox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 58.0+build6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
firefox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5090

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

Exploit prediction

2.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% 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	10.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness

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

References

usn.ubuntu.com /3544-1/
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
mozilla.org /security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/
vendor-advisory
securitytracker.com /id/1040270
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org /buglist.cgi?bug_id=1413857%2C1412653%2C1418966%2C1427126%2C1412942%2C1401459%2C1364399%2C1382851%2C1423770%2C
issue-tracking, permissions-required
securityfocus.com /bid/102786
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-5090
NVD CVE-2018-5090

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Summary