CVE-2018-12400

In private browsing mode on Firefox for Android, favicons are cached in the cache/icons folder as they are in non-private mode. This allows information leakage of sites visited during private browsing sessions. *Note: this issue only affects Firefox for Android. Desktop versions of Firefox are unaffected.*. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 63.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.3 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2019-02-28

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105721
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041944
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448305
• https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-26/