CVE-2018-5176: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The JSON Viewer displays clickable hyperlinks for strings that are parseable as URLs, including "javascript:" links. If a JSON file contains malicious JavaScript script embedded as "javascript:" links, users may be tricked into clicking and running this code in the context of the JSON Viewer. This can allow for the theft of cookies and authorization tokens which are accessible to that context. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• Mozilla Firefox: before 60.0 (fixed in 60.0)

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