Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11742

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11742

Published: September 3, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU20820
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11742
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 the way the same origin policy is applied to cached images in a combination of SVG filters and a element. A remote attacker can violate same-origin policy and access images from another domain. 


Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2019-11742

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 69.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 69.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.4, 69.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 69.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.04.1, 69.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 69.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 69.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
thunderbird (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:60.9.0-1~deb9u1, 1:60.9.0-1~deb10u1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2, 1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:60.9.0+build1-0ubuntu0.19.04.1
Mozilla Thunderbird - addressed in versions 60.9.0, 68.1.0
Firefox ESR - addressed in versions 60.9.0, 68.1.0
firefox-esr (Alpine package) - update to 60.9.0-r0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 60.9.0esr-1~deb10u1

External References

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