A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while adjusting layout during SVG animations with text paths. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 52.8, Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Firefox < 60, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.
CVE-2018-5155
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-14. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8(medium)
- EG Risk
- 50(Track)EG Risk 50/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity98% × 45%Exploitation3% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 88%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 11, 2018
Last Modified
November 25, 2025
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Aug 20, 2026Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201810-01) — Gentoo security
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01[SECURITY] [DLA 1382-1] thunderbird security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00013.html[SECURITY] [DLA 1376-1] firefox-esr security update
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00007.html1448774 - (CVE-2018-5155) heap-use-after-free in mozilla::CharIterator::GetOriginalGlyphOffsets
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448774Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1726Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1725Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1415Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1414Patch Availability(6)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | firefox-testsuite (60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) @ xenial | 2026-05-28 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | xul-ext-lightning (1:52.8.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) @ xenial | 2026-05-28 | ubuntu |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:52.8.0-2.el6_9 | 2018-05-24 | redhat |
| redhat | thunderbird-0:52.8.0-1.el7_5 | 2018-05-24 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:52.8.0-1.el6_9 | 2018-05-14 | redhat |
| redhat | firefox-0:52.8.0-1.el7_5 | 2018-05-14 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(14 across 7 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | — | 52.8.0esr-1 | — |
| thunderbird | — | 1:52.8.0-1 | — |
Debian:12(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | — | 52.8.0esr-1 | — |
| thunderbird | — | 1:52.8.0-1 | — |
Debian:13(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | — | 52.8.0esr-1 | — |
| thunderbird | — | 1:52.8.0-1 | — |
Debian:14(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | — | 52.8.0esr-1 | — |
| thunderbird | — | 1:52.8.0-1 | — |
Debian:7(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | 45.0.1esr-1 ... 52.7.3esr-1~deb9u1 (89 versions) | 52.8.0esr-1~deb7u1 | — |
| thunderbird | 1.5-4 ... 1:52.7.0-1~deb9u1 (34 versions) | 1:52.8.0-1~deb7u1 | — |
Debian:8(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | 45.0.1esr-1 ... 52.8.0esr-1~deb7u1 (90 versions) | 52.8.0esr-1~deb8u1 | — |
| thunderbird | 1.5-4 ... 1:52.8.0-1~deb7u1 (35 versions) | 1:52.8.0-1~deb8u1 | — |
Debian:9(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-esr | 45.9.0esr-1 ... 52.8.0esr-1~deb8u1 (53 versions) | 52.8.0esr-1~deb9u1 | — |
| thunderbird | 1.5-4 ... 1:52.8.0-1~deb8u1 (36 versions) | 1:52.8.0-1~deb9u1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(6)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1414IMPORTANT2018-05-09
RHSA-2018:1414 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1415IMPORTANT2018-05-09
RHSA-2018:1415 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1725IMPORTANT2018-05-09
RHSA-2018:1725 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2018:1726IMPORTANT2018-05-09
RHSA-2018:1726 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-3645-1MEDIUM
Firefox vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-3660-1MEDIUM
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
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