CVE-2019-11720

Description

Some unicode characters are incorrectly treated as whitespace during the parsing of web content instead of triggering parsing errors. This allows malicious code to then be processed, evading cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 68.

References

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2019-21/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-12

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556230

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00011.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00010.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00009.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3