The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2663 advisory.

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

    This update upgrades Firefox to version 68.1.0 ESR.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Mozilla: Sandbox escape through Firefox Sync (CVE-2019-9812)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69 and Firefox ESR 68.1 (CVE-2019-11735)

    * Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 69, Firefox ESR 68.1, and Firefox ESR 60.9 (CVE-2019-11740)

    * Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation with SVG filters and canvas to steal cross-origin images     (CVE-2019-11742)

    * Mozilla: XSS by breaking out of title and textarea elements using innerHTML (CVE-2019-11744)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating video (CVE-2019-11746)

    * Mozilla: Use-after-free while extracting a key value in IndexedDB (CVE-2019-11752)

    * Mozilla: Cross-origin access to unload event attributes (CVE-2019-11743)

    * Mozilla: Persistence of WebRTC permissions in a third party context (CVE-2019-11748)

    * Mozilla: Camera information available without prompting using getUserMedia (CVE-2019-11749)

    * Mozilla: Type confusion in Spidermonkey (CVE-2019-11750)

    * Mozilla: Content security policy bypass through hash-based sources in directives (CVE-2019-11738)

    * Mozilla: 'Forget about this site' removes sites from pre-loaded HSTS list (CVE-2019-11747)

    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-2019:2663)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128517

Version 1.16

Version 1.15

Version 1.14

Version 1.13

Version 1.16 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") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070242
Version 1.15 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.14 Apr 29, 2024, 6:56 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202404290656
Version 1.13 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM 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") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425