CVE-2019-11763 Information

Description

Failure to correctly handle null bytes when processing HTML entities resulted in Firefox incorrectly parsing these entities. This could have led to HTML comment text being treated as HTML which could have led to XSS in a web application under certain conditions. It could have also led to HTML entities being masked from filters - enabling the use of entities to mask the actual characters of interest from filters. This vulnerability affects Firefox 70 Thunderbird 68.2 and Firefox ESR 68.2.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584216 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-10 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-33/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-34/ https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-35/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.1