SB2019102120 - Protection mechanism failure in firefox (Alpine package)
Published: October 21, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019102120
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Protection mechanism failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11763)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to the way Firefox processes HTML entities. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page and make the browser treat HTML comment text as HTML, which could have led to XSS in a web application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.