Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Firefox Type Confusion Remote Code Execution (CVE-2018-12386)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2019-0652
Date Published: 15 May 2019
Severity: High
Last Updated: Thursday 16 May, 2019
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2018-12386
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? Mozilla Firefox ESR prior to 60.2.2
Mozilla Firefox prior to 60.0.3
Vulnerability Description A type confusion vulnerability exists in Mozilla Firefox. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to remote code execution.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Mozilla Firefox Type Confusion Remote Code Execution (CVE-2018-12386) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Mozilla Firefox Type Confusion Remote Code Execution (CVE-2018-12386)

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