THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-5144
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-5144

Enterprise Linux Desktop vulnerability

CVSS
7.3
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
An integer overflow can occur during conversion of text to some Unicode character sets due to an unchecked length parameter. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.7 and Thunderbird < 52.7.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Enterprise Linux Desktop
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Published
2018-06-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity, low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-5144

  • Confirm whether Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-5144.
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