CVE-2018-12392

Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

9.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 23, 2018

Updated · January 9, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-364 · Signal Handler Race Condition