CVE-2019-11720
mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.011 · 65 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (23)
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advisories (1)
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- WID-SEC-W-2023-0459Mozilla Firefox/Firefox ESR: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2019-07-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Mozilla Firefox und Mozilla Firefox ESR ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, Daten zu manipulieren, Sicherheitsmechanismen zu umgehen, vertrauliche Daten einzusehen oder Code mit den Privilegien des Angegriffenen zur Ausführung zu bringen.
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sources
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references (34)
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556230cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11720cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153622/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-4054-1.htmlcnnvd
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