{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "security@mozilla.org", "ID" : "CVE-2018-18497", "STATE" : "PUBLIC" }, "affects" : { "vendor" : { "vendor_data" : [ { "product" : { "product_data" : [ { "product_name" : "Firefox", "version" : { "version_data" : [ { "version_affected" : "<", "version_value" : "64" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name" : "Mozilla" } ] } }, "data_format" : "MITRE", "data_type" : "CVE", "data_version" : "4.0", "description" : { "description_data" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "Limitations on the URIs allowed to WebExtensions by the browser.windows.create API can be bypassed when a pipe in the URL field is used within the extension to load multiple pages as a single argument. This could allow a malicious WebExtension to open privileged about: or file: locations. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64." } ] }, "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "WebExtensions can load arbitrary URLs through pipe separators" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "name" : "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488180", "refsource" : "CONFIRM", "url" : "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488180" }, { "name" : "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-29/", "refsource" : "CONFIRM", "url" : "https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-29/" }, { "name" : "USN-3844-1", "refsource" : "UBUNTU", "url" : "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3844-1/" }, { "name" : "106167", "refsource" : "BID", "url" : "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106167" } ] } }