The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1764 advisory.

    Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and     portability.

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 60.8.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 68 and Firefox ESR 60.8 (CVE-2019-11709)

    * Mozilla: Sandbox escape via installation of malicious language pack (CVE-2019-9811)

    * Mozilla: Script injection within domain through inner window reuse (CVE-2019-11711)

    * Mozilla: Cross-origin POST requests can be made with NPAPI plugins by following 308 redirects     (CVE-2019-11712)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free with HTTP/2 cached stream (CVE-2019-11713)

    * Mozilla: HTML parsing error can contribute to content XSS (CVE-2019-11715)

    * Mozilla: Caret character improperly escaped in origins (CVE-2019-11717)

    * Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin (CVE-2019-11730)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : firefox (RHSA-2019:1764)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 126681

Version 1.10

Version 1.9

Version 1.10 Nov 7, 2024, 2:42 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411070242
Version 1.9 May 10, 2024, 7:26 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-11713") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202405100726