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Development Tools panels of an extension are required to load URLs for the panels as relative URLs from the extension manifest file but this requirement was not enforced in all instances

Published Jun 11, 2018

Description

Development Tools panels of an extension are required to load URLs for the panels as relative URLs from the extension manifest file but this requirement was not enforced in all instances. This could allow the development tools panel for the extension to load a URL that it should not be able to access, including potentially privileged pages. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 58.

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Remediation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mozilla
Published Jun 11, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Jan 3, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a