CVE-2018-5116: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WebExtensions with the "ActiveTab" permission are able to access frames hosted within the active tab even if the frames are cross-origin. Malicious extensions can inject frames from arbitrary origins into the loaded page and then interact with them, bypassing same-origin user expectations with this permission. 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.