CVE-2019-11763
What it is
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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in, but needs a user to act. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 1.1% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 6.1 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 1.1% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Mozilla Firefox < 70.0
- Mozilla Firefox Esr < 68.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird < 68.2
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 6.1
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Is it in your code?
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Fix and advisories
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-34/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-35/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-33/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-34/
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-35/
References
- 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/
- 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/