CVE-2018-12358 — Service workers can use redirection to avoid the tainting of cross-origin resour

Service workers can use redirection to avoid the tainting of cross-origin resources in some instances, allowing a malicious site to read responses which are supposed to be opaque. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 61.

01What is this vulnerability?

Service workers can use redirection to avoid the tainting of cross-origin resources in some instances, allowing a malicious site to read responses which are supposed to be opaque. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 61.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mozilla	Firefox	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-10-18T13:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T08:30:59.989Z

09References

• security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01
• www.mozilla.org — https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
• bugzilla.mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1467852
• www.securitytracker.com — http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193
• usn.ubuntu.com — https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/