CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2019-11720

Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

4.3 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

6.1 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/ Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556230 Issue Tracking Permissions Required
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2019-07-23 02:15

Updated : 2019-08-15 06:15

NVD link : CVE-2019-11720

Mitre link : CVE-2019-11720

Products Affected

Firefox

Mozilla

CWE
CWE-79