Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2019-11721
The unicode latin 'kra' character can be used to spoof a standard 'k' character in the addressbar. This allows for domain spoofing attacks as do not display as punycode text, allowing for user confusion. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.014 (71.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions unspecified
- openSUSE Leap — versions 15.0, 15.1
References
- www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/ (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-11721?
- CVE-2019-11721 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-23.
- How severe is CVE-2019-11721?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.