Exposed dangerous method or function in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11701

 

Exposed dangerous method or function in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11701

Published: May 22, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU18566
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11701
CWE-ID: CWE-749
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Mozilla
Affected software:
Mozilla Firefox

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to presence of a legacy support for webcal: protocol handler that allows to load a web site vulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks.



How to mitigate CVE-2019-11701

Install updates from vendor's website.

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