CVE-2018-5158: Code injection

June 11, 2018 (updated March 13, 2019)

The PDF viewer does not sufficiently sanitize PostScript calculator functions, allowing malicious JavaScript to be injected through a crafted PDF file. This JavaScript can then be run with the permissions of the PDF viewer by its worker.

References

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452075
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5158

Code Behaviors & Features

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