CVE-2018-5169

Mozilla: Dragging and dropping link text onto home button can set home page to include chrome pages

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.1

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 9, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

If manipulated hyperlinked text with "chrome:" URL contained in it is dragged and dropped on the "home" icon, the home page can be reset to include a normally-unlinkable chrome page as one of the home page tabs. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE-862 · Missing Authorization