Description
A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries(). This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 62, Firefox ESR < 60.2, and Thunderbird < 60.2.1.
Published: 2019-02-28
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-10224 A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries(). This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 62, Firefox ESR < 60.2, and Thunderbird < 60.2.1.
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.001}

epss

{'score': 0.00104}


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Mozilla Firefox Firefox Esr Thunderbird
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:08:21.929Z

Reserved: 2018-10-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-18499

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-02-28T18:29:01.947

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:56:03.290

Link: CVE-2018-18499

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-09-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-18499 - Bugzilla

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