Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2018-05

Arbitrary code execution through unsanitized browser UI

Announced
January 29, 2018
Reporter
Johann Hofmann
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox
Fixed in
  • Firefox 58.0.1

Description

Mozilla developer Johann Hofmann reported that unsanitized output in the browser UI can lead to arbitrary code execution.

This issue did not affect Firefox for Android or Firefox 52 ESR.

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