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CVE-2018-18505 — An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerability, CVE-2011-

An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerability, CVE-2011-3079, added authentication to communication between IPC endpoints and server parents during IPC process creation. This authentication is insufficient for channels created after the IPC process is star

CVSS
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EPSS
3.14% (top 13.30%)
CWE
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Published
2019-02-05T21:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T11:08:21.951Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

An earlier fix for an Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerability, CVE-2011-3079, added authentication to communication between IPC endpoints and server parents during IPC process creation. This authentication is insufficient for channels created after the IPC process is started, leading to the authentication not being correctly applied to later channels. This could allow for a sandbox escape…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
MozillaThunderbirdunspecified
MozillaFirefox ESRunspecified
MozillaFirefoxunspecified

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

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

CVE-2011-3079
Cited in vendor advisory

08Timeline

09References

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