CVE-2018-12367

Summary

In the previous mitigations for Spectre, the resolution or precision of various methods was reduced to counteract the ability to measure precise time intervals. In that work PerformanceNavigationTiming was not adjusted but it was found that it could be used as a precision timer. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, and Firefox < 61.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
MozillaThunderbirdunspecified < 60affected
MozillaFirefox ESRunspecified < 60.1affected
MozillaFirefoxunspecified < 61affected

Weaknesses

  • Timing attack mitigation of PerformanceNavigationTiming

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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