Cleartext transmission of sensitive information in Mozilla Firefox - CVE-2019-17002
Published: October 23, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU22172
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17002
CWE-ID: CWE-319
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 gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to software processes upgrade-insecure-requests in the Content Security Policy, and a link is dragged and dropped from such page. As a result, the link is not upgraded to https and allows to transmit data over unencrypted channel.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-17002
Install updates from vendor's website.