CVE-2018-5111: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When the text of a specially formatted URL is dragged to the addressbar from page content, the displayed URL can be spoofed to show a different site than the one loaded. This allows for phishing attacks where a malicious page can spoof the identify of another site. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only
• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 57.0.4

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