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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2018-5093 in the critical feed json

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability may occur in WebAssembly during Memory/Table resizing, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash.

published 2018-06-11 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-16879

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.4%
EPSS 19.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability may occur in WebAssembly during Memory/Table resizing, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Firefox 58
  • 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-2018-5093

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

Exploit prediction

19.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

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

References

Sources

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