CVE-2019-11720
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-07-23 13:17
Modified
2024-08-04 23:03
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556230Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
MozillaFirefox
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