medium6.1
CVE-2019-11720
Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | before 68.0 |
| Opensuse | Leap | Versions 15.0, 15.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556230
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556230
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12
- https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/