CVE-2019-11730 Information

Description

A vulnerability exists where if a user opens a locally saved HTML file this file can use file: URIs to access other files in the same directory or sub-directories if the names are known or guessed. The Fetch API can then be used to read the contents of any files stored in these directories and they may uploaded to a server. It was demonstrated that in combination with a popular Android messaging app if a malicious HTML attachment is sent to a user and they opened that attachment in Firefox due to that app’s predictable pattern for locally-saved file names it is possible to read attachments the victim received from other correspondents. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 60.8 Firefox 68 and Thunderbird 60.8.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00055.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00058.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00073.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1558299 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00001.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00002.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-20 https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-22/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-23/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.5