CVE-2017-5418: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An out of bounds read error occurs when parsing some HTTP digest authorization responses, resulting in information leakage through the reading of random memory containing matches to specifically set patterns. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 52 and Thunderbird < 52.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: before 52.0 (fixed in 52.0)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 52.0 (fixed in 52.0)

Published 2018-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.