Bug 1576270 (CVE-2018-5169) - CVE-2018-5169 Mozilla: Dragging and dropping link text onto home button can set home page to include chrome pages
Summary: CVE-2018-5169 Mozilla: Dragging and dropping link text onto home button can s...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-5169
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1573375
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-09 07:15 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:22:10 UTC
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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. 



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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
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