Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-9817

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-9817

Published: May 21, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU18551
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9817
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect access restrictions when reading images from a different domain. A remote attacker can use a canvas object under certain circumstances to violate same-origin policy and read image data from another domain name.


Affected software

Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise
thunderbird (Ubuntu package)
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox-esr (Debian package)
firefox-esr (Alpine package)
thunderbird (Debian package)
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2019-9817

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 67.0
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:60.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 1:60.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:60.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1, 1:60.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 67.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 67.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 67.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1, 67.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.04.1, 67.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 67.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 67.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1, 67.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1, 67.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 67.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 67.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.18.10.1, 67.0.2+build2-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 60.7.0esr-1~deb9u1
Firefox ESR - update to 60.7.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 60.7.0
firefox-esr (Alpine package) - update to 60.7.0-r0
thunderbird (Debian package) - update to 1:60.7.0-1~deb9u1

External References

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