Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2019-11717
A vulnerability exists where the caret ("^") character is improperly escaped constructing some URIs due to it being used as a separator, allowing for possible spoofing of origin attributes. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 60.8, Fi…
EPSS: 0.021 (79.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Firefox Esr — versions unspecified
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions unspecified
- Novell Suse_package_hub_for_suse_linux_enterprise — versions 12
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0
- Opensuse Leap — versions 15.0, 15.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-11717?
- CVE-2019-11717 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2019-07-23.
- How severe is CVE-2019-11717?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.