Bug 1576270 (CVE-2018-5169)

Summary:	CVE-2018-5169 Mozilla: Dragging and dropping link text onto home button can set home page to include chrome pages
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 07:15:19 UTC

If manipulated hyperlinked text with `chrome:` URL contained in it is dragged and dropped on the "home" icon, the home page can be reset to include a normally-unlinkable chrome page as one of the home page tabs. 



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/#CVE-2018-5169

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 07:15:24 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Abdulrahman Alqabandi