Security Advisory

CVE-2018-5176

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-06-11 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 05:26:46
Assigner mozilla
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The JSON Viewer displays clickable hyperlinks for strings that are parseable as URLs, including "javascript:" links. If a JSON file contains malicious JavaScript script embedded as "javascript:" links, users may be tricked into clicking and running this code in the context of the JSON Viewer. This can allow for the theft of cookies and authorization tokens which are accessible to that context. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.