Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-17001
Published: October 23, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22171
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-2019-17001
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to the Content-Security-Policy that blocks in-line scripts could be bypassed using an object tag to execute JavaScript in the protected document. A remote attacker can use such behavior in conjunction with XSS vulnerability on the website to bypass CSP protection using object tag when script-src 'none' is specified.
Affected software
Mozilla Firefox
Arch Linux
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox (Alpine package)
Arch Linux
firefox (Ubuntu package)
firefox (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-17001
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
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