mozilla/pdf.js · Security
Malicious PDF can inject JavaScript into PDF Viewer
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-7jg2-jgv3-fmr4
- CVE ID
- CVE-2018-5158
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
The PDF viewer does not sufficiently sanitize PostScript calculator functions, allowing malicious JavaScript to be injected through a crafted PDF file. This JavaScript can then be run with the permissions of the PDF viewer by its worker. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.8, Firefox < 60 and PDF.js < 2.0.550.
CWEs
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5158 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1414 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1415 ↗
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452075 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00007.html ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4199 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104136 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896 ↗
- https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/9659 ↗
- https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/commit/2dc4af525d1612c98afcd1e6bee57d4788f78f97 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1 ↗
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11 ↗
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-12 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7jg2-jgv3-fmr4 ↗