Protection mechanism failure in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-11763
Published: October 23, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22168
CSH Severity: Low
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:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-11763
CWE-ID: CWE-693
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 XSS attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to the way Firefox processes HTML entities. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page and make the browser treat HTML comment text as HTML, which could have led to XSS in a web application.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-11763
Install updates from vendor's website.