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CVE-2018-12367 json

In the previous mitigations for Spectre, the resolution or precision of various methods was reduced to counteract the ability to measure pr…

published 2018-10-18 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-4341

cvss
4.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the previous mitigations for Spectre, the resolution or precision of various methods was reduced to counteract the ability to measure precise time intervals. In that work PerformanceNavigationTiming was not adjusted but it was found that it could be used as a precision timer. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, and Firefox < 61.

Patch / fix

  • Mozilla Thunderbird 60
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR 60.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 61
  • thunderbird Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:60.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12367

  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  • firefox Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  • firefox Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12367

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

  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 60.2.1-3.13.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3247-1

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 92.0-1.2
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 91.1.1-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird Package Hub 12 60.3.0-74.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1openSUSE-SU-2018:3687-1

  • firefox Arch Linux 61.0-1
  • thunderbird Arch Linux 60.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-727AVG-751

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-2018-12367 updated cvss 4.3

Mozilla: Timing attack mitigation of PerformanceNavigationTiming

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR
  • Mozilla Firefox

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.