Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11762

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11762

Published: October 23, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU22167
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11762
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 Firefox processes two same-origin documents that set document.domain differently to become cross-origin. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it and gain access to potentially sensitive information, as it is possible to call arbitrary DOM methods/getters/setters on the now-cross-origin window.


Affected software

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

How to mitigate CVE-2019-11762

Install updates from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 70.0
firefox (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.04.1, 70.0+build2-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
thunderbird (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:68.2.1+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1, 1:68.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 1:68.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.19.10.1, 1:68.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
thunderbird (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1:68.2.2-1~deb9u1, 1:68.2.2-1~deb10u1
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 68.2.0
Firefox ESR - update to 68.2.0
firefox-esr (Debian package) - update to 68.2.0esr-1~deb10u1
firefox-esr (Alpine package) - update to 68.2.0-r0

External References

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