critical
CVE-2018-12392
Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Amazon. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).
Description
When manipulating user events in nested loops while opening a document through script, it is possible to trigger a potentially exploitable crash due to poor event handling. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63, Firefox ESR < 60.3, and Thunderbird < 60.3.
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| amazon linux 2 | thunderbird, thunderbird-debuginfo | 60.2.1-4.amzn2.0.1 |
| debian 11 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 60.3.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| debian 12 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 60.3.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| debian 13 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 60.3.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| debian 14 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 60.3.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| debian 8 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 60.3.0esr-1~deb8u1 and 1 more |
| debian 9 | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 60.3.0esr-1~deb9u1 and 1 more |
| echo | firefox-esr, thunderbird | 60.3.0esr-1 and 1 more |
| Oracle Linux 6 | firefox, thunderbird | 60.3.0-1.0.1.el6 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | firefox, thunderbird | 60.3.0-1.0.1.el7_5 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | firefox, thunderbird | 63.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 and 1 more |
| ubuntu 16.04 | firefox, thunderbird | 63.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 and 1 more |
Show all 50 entries from 25 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| amazon linux 2 | thunderbird | 60.2.1-4.amzn2.0.1 |
| amazon linux 2 | thunderbird-debuginfo | 60.2.1-4.amzn2.0.1 |
| debian 11 | firefox-esr | 60.3.0esr-1 |
| debian 11 | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1 |
| debian 12 | firefox-esr | 60.3.0esr-1 |
| debian 12 | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1 |
| debian 13 | firefox-esr | 60.3.0esr-1 |
| debian 13 | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1 |
| debian 14 | firefox-esr | 60.3.0esr-1 |
| debian 14 | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1 |
| debian 8 | firefox-esr | 60.3.0esr-1~deb8u1 |
| debian 8 | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1~deb8u1 |
| debian 9 | firefox-esr | 60.3.0esr-1~deb9u1 |
| debian 9 | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1~deb9u1 |
| echo | firefox-esr | 60.3.0esr-1 |
| echo | thunderbird | 1:60.3.0-1 |
| Oracle Linux 6 | firefox | 60.3.0-1.0.1.el6 |
| Oracle Linux 6 | thunderbird | 60.3.0-1.0.1.el6 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | firefox | 60.3.0-1.0.1.el7_5 |
| Oracle Linux 7 | thunderbird | 60.3.0-1.0.1.el7_5 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | firefox | 63.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 |
| ubuntu 14.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | firefox | 63.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 |
| ubuntu 16.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
| ubuntu 18.04 | firefox | 63.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 |
| ubuntu 18.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| ubuntu 18.10 | firefox | 63.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.2 |
| ubuntu 18.10 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 |
| ubuntu 19.04 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 19.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 19.10 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 19.10 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 20.04 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 20.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 20.10 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 20.10 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 21.04 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 21.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 21.10 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 21.10 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 22.04 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 22.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 22.10 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 22.10 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 23.04 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 23.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 23.10 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 23.10 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 24.04 | firefox | 63.0+build1-0ubuntu1 |
| ubuntu 24.04 | thunderbird | 1:60.4.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105718
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105769
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041944
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3005
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3006
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3531
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3532
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12392
All 29 references
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492823
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2018-12392.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-3532.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00008.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00011.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12392
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-04
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3801-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3868-1
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3801-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3868-1/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12392
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4324
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4337
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/#CVE-2018-12392
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-27/#CVE-2018-12392
- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-28/#CVE-2018-12392
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-27/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-28/