Spoofing attack in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11696
Published: May 21, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18561
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11696
CWE-ID: CWE-451
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of .JNLP files that are not recognized as executable files. A remote attacker can trick the victim into downloading and running a malicious Java web start file and execute arbitrary Java code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that Java is installed on the system.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-11696
Install updates from vendor's website.